From: lcargill99@comcast.com   
      
   Martin Gregorie wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   We get TCM here, and there's a Bogart movie titled "Battle Circus"   
   that's pretty not-bad.   
      
   > 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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