Category Archives: Books

What I learned reading the original Grimm’s Fairy Tales

I’m a fan of the television show “Grimm” so I wanted to read some of the original source material.  Here’s what I learned: The end justifies the means. Life is cheap. Money and power can buy happiness Women are property. … Continue reading

Books

Twain on Censorship

“But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn’t … Continue reading

Books, Social, Religion

Happy Birthday Mark Twain

From the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he’d got to be a … Continue reading

Books

I Guess You Could Do That

Heard by my brother at the end of The Twilight Saga: New Moon: Girl in the theater: “WHAT, we have to wait until the next movie to see what happens?” My niece, whispering: “No, you could just read the books.” … Continue reading

Books, Movies, Social, Religion

The Idiot’s Guide

I sometimes go over to Google Books to see what pops up.  I saw this.  My first thought:  You’d have to be a complete idiot to believe for even one second that this is anything but bullshit.

Books, Social, Religion