What book are you reading ...

[Jason H]

And, right on cue, here come the culture warriors!

Call to remove Of Mice and Men from GCSE course - BBC News

 

[angelic upstart]

And, right on cue, here come the culture warriors!

Call to remove Of Mice and Men from GCSE course - BBC News

You mean one schoolgirl who doesn't want it.
I'm very annoyed that people give this airspace.

 

[Jason H]

Indeed - but you can see the BBC's bent on this sort of thing. They love a bit of culture war.

 

[angelic upstart]

Indeed - but you can see the BBC's bent on this sort of thing. They love a bit of culture war.

They all love that ********. One darned clown says some dumb shit and everyone talks about it like it's important.

Literally, no one gives a ****. Give it up already.

Hopefully, the swear filter makes this make sense

 

[Jason H]

Ha - I get the gist!

 

[Rosencrantz]

Maybe someone should point out to her that literature is educational just like history. It can provoke feelings that are uncomfortable, just like all mediums of art, and it is all the better for it at times.

 

[Billy The Fish]

Loved reading Tom Sawyer and also The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn but you do have to wonder how schools deal with the issues around slavery and the language used. Maybe they just sweep these classics under the carpet.

 

[angelic upstart]

Loved reading Tom Sawyer and also The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn but you do have to wonder how schools deal with the issues around slavery and the language used. Maybe they just sweep these classics under the carpet.

Maybe they explain like they did to us and say something like "in the old days, they did bad stuff, proper bad stuff not the wooly ***** of nowadays, beware of that and count yourself lucky"

 

[Swanaldo]

I think the thread title should be "Which books are you kinda reading right now, and should probably finish before you start a new one?"

 

[Rosencrantz]

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I think the thread title should be "Which books are you kinda reading right now, and should probably finish before you start a new one?"

Well I have read the top and bottom of that pile. Both are good but especially enjoyed Robert Webb's. Just getting toward the end of the new book by The Secret Barrister, Nothing But The Truth.