Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:29:32 +1300, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 17/02/25 12:16, Peter Moylan wrote:

On 17/02/25 07:57, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Peter Moylan  <peter@pmoylan.org> wrote:

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.

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Have you seen the film?  The film is very different than the book but
in some ways is a better experience even though so much is left out.

 
I rarely look at a film based on a book I have read, because I've been
disappointed too many times. I think I did see the film in this case,
but my main memory of it is "not as good as the book".
 

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Catch-22 was my favourite 'documentary" for decades and whilst I enjoyed
the film, it had nowhere near the impact of the book. It is decades
since last read but I have reread it many times. The trouble with the
film is that when I think of characters in the book, I see characters
from the film who were rarely developed or expressed as well as in the
book. Now, I feel like reading it again.

Yeah. I enjoy the film whenever I see it, but the book has a lot more
in it.

I should point out that the film /does/ move about in time, as the
book does, if not as much. So some of the flavor of the text (so to
speak), of it's nonlinear plot, is present.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"