Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:53:41 -0500, Rich Ulrich
<rich.ulrich@comcast.net> wrote:

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 08:46:55 +1100, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
wrote:
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On 14/02/25 08:21, D wrote:

On Wed, 12 Feb 2025, Judith Latham wrote:

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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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Excellent! Will read again.

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I did read it again, and was disappointed. Somehow, for me, it had lost
its air of originality. I'd almost classify it as a "read once" book.
Many of the other books on the list can be read with pleasure multiple
times.

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"Read once" vs. "read multiple times" -
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In my youth, almost every book of fiction was "read once".
I read fast, but I remembered large amounts word-for-word
and that made re-reading less pleasant.  But I did develop a
habit of re-reading series, where the latter stories added
depth to what I had picked up on first-read.
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I still read fast, which I've realized is often "too fast."
Especially, I still missed a lot of social interplay and clever
dialog, even though I try to pay more attention. These days,
I'll re-read a book within a few weeks if I did enjoy it.

When I first read /The Hunger Games/, I read it lickity-split and then
mistook subconscious items I had retained without realing it for
inferences I was making. When I read it the second time, I also reread
it the third time because I had to slow myself down practically every
chapter and reread it again, much more slowly. There is a /lot/ of
background info that Katniss, who is telling the story in first-person
present, provides.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"