Posted on 06/07/2022 1:51:47 PM PDT by navysealdad
But "Heather's Two Mommies" will be A-OK as long us US deep state $$$ are flowing.
I read it last year and enjoyed it! I liked it so well I then read Doctor Zhivago, twice!
Napoleon took Moscow. But according to the book it was a horse stealing raid by the Cossacks that almost captured Napoleon which led him to decide to return to France.
Please remove your mouth from Zelenskyyy.
One of my favorites.
I have read the whole thing...three times.
You not say Ukraine weak!
Why are you so obsessed with this Zelensky guy? You keep posting about him constantly... do you have a man crush on him?
“I wouldn’t put it on the curriculum either”
I would bet money that it never was on the curriculum, except for maybe in some university classes. It’s just a way to thumb their nose at Russia.
Yeah, freaking Tolstoy. Replace it with Mein Kampf and It Takes a Village.
I don’t need any more t-shirts, but I’ve seriously considered buying a “Make Orwell Fiction Again” one due to the times in which we live.
And Ukrainian children rejoice. I read War and Peace in high school and found it verbose and boring.
Bad on Lifenews for calling it a ban.
Democrats.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a brilliant book. But it is the kind of book I’d put in with James Joyce’s Ulysses, or Mervyn Peake’s Titus trilogy. Which I was reading by age 11... These days you wouldn’t expect many people under 18 to have read even one of those books let alone all of them, unless they were studying English Literature.
A lot of kids these days just don’t read even children’s books, sadly. Teenage and Young Adult targeted fiction these days is far simpler and far less gritty than the stuff I was reading at age 9 (having already consumed pretty much everything in the Children’s section of Dad’s library - which was vast. It included Daniel Defoe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Michael Ballantyne, Johann R Wyss, Capt. WE Johns, Edith Nesbit, CS Lewis, Jules Verne, Kenneth Grahame, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, Erich Kästner, Arthur Ransome, Richmal Crompton and Charles Kingsley.)
I’m still depressed at the fact most young adults don’t even seem to know that “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” is the first book out of 14 in L. Frank Baum’s series; or that “The Magician’s Nephew” is the second Narnia book, and the prequel/origin story for “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”.
How many people know that the most well-known Peter Pan adaptations are actually based on one of the later books in a series (”Peter and Wendy”) and the first book included Peter’s origin (”Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens”)?
There’s a Reading Age of 7 version of War and Peace. But There’s also Enid Blyton’s “The Land of Far-Beyond” which is a children’s book that retells A Pilgrim’s Progress. I’d actually be impressed if the average 16 year old had even read those versions, let alone the original books.
“Leo Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ and other works that glorify the Russian military will no longer be taught in Ukrainian schools, Kiev’s ministry of education announced on Tuesday.”
QUICKEST way to get Ukrainians reading it. Hopefully they’ll learn some things.
Dumb.
“I was thinking the other day it is remarkable Mein Kampf is still accessible .”
Mostly likely that’s what Ukraine is replacing War and Peace with.
“But “Heather’s Two Mommies” will be A-OK as long us US deep state $$$ are flowing.”
Why do I think this book hasn’t been translated into Russian?
The official narrative on the war from our Democrat/media/corporate establishment is about as credible as their “Russia evil! Trump evil!” narrative of 2016-2022 (or a “Borat!” movie)...
I agree, it is an okay read, some parts are pretty good. I like the part where the prince gets wounded in battle, he is fighting and suddenly he is on the ground looking up at how nice the clouds look and wondering what all of the racket is going on around him.
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