To: C19fan
I have read Hamlet, and Animal Farm.
I think I also read The Great Gatsby, but my aging memory is protecting me from remembering it.
Hamlet isn’t meant to be read - it is meant to be acted. Reading it silently is, indeed, boring, but the story is good. Don’t waste your time trying to psychoanalyze Hamlet though.
Animal Farm was sort of “anti-Communism for kids.” American kids might benefit from reading it, but it is kinda depressing.
13 posted on
03/02/2022 9:28:54 AM PST by
Little Ray
(Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
To: Little Ray
George Orwell was a great writer and I've read most of his work. However, I think
Animal Farm was the best. Very readable without being childish. Sobering and educational without being preachy or didactic.
I've got to wonder how many liberals have read it and dismiss it because they think they are the pigs.
56 posted on
03/02/2022 9:59:47 AM PST by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: Little Ray
That’s because communism is depressing! Ask the Cubans!
66 posted on
03/02/2022 10:08:20 AM PST by
gr8eman
(When you're bought and paid for by commies...you're a commie!)
To: Little Ray
I’ve read 4, 5 and 9. I thought Gatsby was a little shallow.
Moby Dick I’ve been saving for retirement. I guess I should get cracking.
68 posted on
03/02/2022 10:13:25 AM PST by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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