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27804

A “Classic” Book You’ve TRIED To Read More Than Once And Could Never Get Into

  1. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. I’ve tried it 4 times over the span of 40 years. I will not try again.
  2. Moby-Dick
  3. War and Peace
  4. The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu
  5. The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
  6. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
  7. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
  8. 1984 by George Orwell
  9. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
  10. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
  11. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

I have read synopses of it, but I cannot read the actual book.

27805

A “Classic” Book You’ve TRIED To Read More Than Once And Could Never Get Into

  1. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. I’ve tried it 4 times over the span of 40 years. I will not try again.
  2. Moby-Dick
  3. War and Peace
  4. The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu
  5. The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
  6. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
  7. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
  8. 1984 by George Orwell
  9. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
  10. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
  11. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  12. The Holy Bible

(It’s true, I once tried to read the Bible from cover to cover. Got bogged down in all the “begats” and gave up.)

27806

A “Classic” Book You’ve TRIED To Read More Than Once And Could Never Get Into

  1. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. I’ve tried it 4 times over the span of 40 years. I will not try again.
  2. Moby-Dick
  3. War and Peace
  4. The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu
  5. The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
  6. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
  7. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
  8. 1984 by George Orwell
  9. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
  10. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
  11. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  12. The Holy Bible
  13. Nova, by Samuel R. Delany

New: Fiction about a (labor) strike

  1. “The Roads Must Roll” by Samuel R. Delany
27807

Fiction about a (labor) strike

  1. “The Roads Must Roll” by Samuel R. Delany
  2. ***Sister Carrie ***by Theodore Dreiser (Hurstwood becomes a scab motorman during transit workers strike)
27808

Fiction about a (labor) strike

  1. “The Roads Must Roll” by Samuel R. Delany
  2. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (Hurstwood becomes a scab motorman during transit workers strike)
  3. The Molly McGuires, 1970 film.
27809

Fiction about a (labor) strike

  1. “The Roads Must Roll” by Samuel R. Delany
  2. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (Hurstwood becomes a scab motorman during transit workers strike)
  3. The Molly McGuires, 1970 film.
  4. Norma Rae, 1979 movie
27810

Fiction about a (labor) strike

  1. “The Roads Must Roll” by Samuel R. Delany
  2. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (Hurstwood becomes a scab motorman during transit workers strike)
  3. The Molly McGuires, 1970 film.
  4. Norma Rae, 1979 movie
  5. “Last Exit to Springfield,” a Simpsons episode about a strike at the nuclear power plant
27811

Fiction about a (labor) strike

  1. “The Roads Must Roll” by Samuel R. Delany
  2. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
  3. The Molly McGuires, 1970 film.
  4. Norma Rae, 1979 movie
  5. “Last Exit to Springfield”
  6. Billy Elliot

Fictional story set during the real 1984-85 UK Miners strike.

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Fiction about a (labor) strike

  1. “The Roads Must Roll” by Samuel R. Delany
  2. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
  3. The Molly McGuires, 1970 film.
  4. Norma Rae, 1979 movie
  5. “Last Exit to Springfield”
  6. Billy Elliot
  7. The Out-of-Towners (1970 film)

An unexpected transit strike adds to the wackiness.

27813

Fiction about a (labor) strike

  1. “The Roads Must Roll” by Samuel R. Delany
  2. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
  3. The Molly McGuires, 1970 film.
  4. Norma Rae, 1979 movie
  5. “Last Exit to Springfield”
  6. Billy Elliot
  7. The Out-of-Towners (1970 film)
  8. Modern Times

The Tramp gets thrown in prison after he’s believed to be the leader of a labor strike.

27814

Fiction about a (labor) strike

  1. “The Roads Must Roll” by Samuel R. Delany
  2. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
  3. The Molly McGuires, 1970 film.
  4. Norma Rae, 1979 movie
  5. “Last Exit to Springfield”
  6. Billy Elliot
  7. The Out-of-Towners (1970 film)
  8. Modern Times
  9. Matewan

A John Sayles film about a coal miners’ strike in West Virginia in the 20s.

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Fiction about a (labor) strike

  1. “The Roads Must Roll” by Samuel R. Delany
  2. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
  3. The Molly McGuires, 1970 film.
  4. Norma Rae, 1979 movie
  5. “Last Exit to Springfield”
  6. Billy Elliot
  7. The Out-of-Towners (1970 film)
  8. Modern Times
  9. Matewan
  10. Bon Jovi song “Living on a Prayer”
27816

Fiction about a (labor) strike

  1. “The Roads Must Roll” by Robert A. Heinlein
  2. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
  3. The Molly McGuires, 1970 film.
  4. Norma Rae, 1979 movie
  5. “Last Exit to Springfield”
  6. Billy Elliot
  7. The Out-of-Towners (1970 film)
  8. Modern Times
  9. Matewan
  10. Bon Jovi song “Living on a Prayer”

Edited to correct my error; of course Heinlein wrote “The Roads Must Roll”. :o

27817

Fiction about a (labor) strike

  1. “The Roads Must Roll” by Robert A. Heinlein
  2. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
  3. The Molly McGuires, 1970 film.
  4. Norma Rae, 1979 movie
  5. “Last Exit to Springfield”
  6. Billy Elliot
  7. The Out-of-Towners (1970 film)
  8. Modern Times
  9. Matewan
  10. Bon Jovi song “Living on a Prayer”
    11.*Sometimes a Great Notion by *Ken Kesey made into a movie in 1971 starring Henry Fonda and Paul Newman, who also directed.
27818

Fiction about a (labor) strike

  1. “The Roads Must Roll” by Robert A. Heinlein
  2. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
  3. The Molly McGuires, 1970 film.
  4. Norma Rae, 1979 movie
  5. “Last Exit to Springfield”
  6. Billy Elliot
  7. The Out-of-Towners (1970 film)
  8. Modern Times
  9. Matewan
  10. Bon Jovi song “Living on a Prayer”
    11.*Sometimes a Great Notion by *Ken Kesey made into a movie in 1971 starring Henry Fonda and Paul Newman, who also directed
  11. “Strikebreaker” by Isaac Asimov
27819

Fiction about a (labor) strike

  1. “The Roads Must Roll” by Robert A. Heinlein

  2. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

  3. The Molly McGuires, 1970 film.

  4. Norma Rae, 1979 movie

  5. “Last Exit to Springfield”

  6. Billy Elliot

  7. The Out-of-Towners (1970 film)

  8. Modern Times

  9. Matewan

  10. Bon Jovi song “Living on a Prayer”
    11.*Sometimes a Great Notion by *Ken Kesey made into a movie in 1971 starring Henry Fonda and Paul Newman, who also directed

  11. “Strikebreaker” by Isaac Asimov

  12. Peter Sellers movie ***I’m All Right, Jack ***
    New topic: Frequent Guest Hosts For Johnny Carson

  13. MacLean (Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz) Stevenson

27820

New topic: Frequent Guest Hosts For Johnny Carson

  1. MacLean (Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz) Stevenson
  2. Joan (Oh, Grow up!) Rivers
27821

Frequent Guest Hosts For Johnny Carson

  1. MacLean (Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz) Stevenson
  2. Joan (Oh, Grow up!) Rivers
  3. David Brenner
27822

Frequent Guest Hosts For Johnny Carson

  1. MacLean (Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz) Stevenson
  2. Joan (Oh, Grow up!) Rivers
  3. David Brenner
  4. David Letterman
27823

I always liked Homer’s union’s name:

Frequent Guest Hosts For Johnny Carson

  1. MacLean (Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz) Stevenson
  2. Joan (Oh, Grow up!) Rivers
  3. David Brenner
  4. David Letterman
  5. Jay Leno