From: martin@address-in-sig.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 10:23:23 -0800, The old geezer wrote:   
      
   > This past summer while attending my Granddaughters 16th Birthday party I   
   > made the mistake(after a few IPAs) of engaging some of her classmates in   
   > conversation.  About their Summer Reading lists.  Blank stares.  Well,   
   > Are you reading Animal Farm or 1984??  More blank stares.  Have you ever   
   > read any Orwell?  Who?? No,  but we've read the latest Harry Potter!   
   > That's right,  keep them in Fantasy Land!  I felt as I were Rod Taylor   
   > in the future in the movie of H.G. Wells' "Time Machine"!!!  And there   
   > was one guy there with a Blue Mohawk!  All I could keep thinking was   
   > "wait until ghe D.I. Gets ahold of him"!  Then I remembered that there   
   > is no longer a Draft......   
      
   Keep "Fahrenheit 451", "Catch 22" or "MASH" (the book) in reserve.   
      
   You never know: she may want to try them some day.   
      
   I think all three are good, easy reads and all have something to say   
   that's relevant to the present situation. Plus, the last two are v. funny.   
      
   FWIW I rate the MASH book 1st, the film 2nd and the TV serial last by   
   quite a long way. The film and TV are based on the book: its author,   
   Richard Hooker, was a MASH surgeon in Korea and reckons everything in the   
   book actually happened, though not necessarily to him.   
      
   More up to date, try William Gibson's Blue Ant trilogy: "Pattern   
   Recognition", "Spook Country" and "Zero History". Good fun, and can be   
   read in any order as they're set in roughly the present. Some characters   
   appear in more than one book. I like its rather dyspeptic take on Russian   
   oligarchs, modern business and its somewhat dodgy and troubled American   
   and British characters.   
      
      
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