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Dimmukane:
I like the new guy with the thick neck.
Wait, that didn't come out right.
I like the new guy with the thick neck.
KvP:
Who, Rob Riggle? Like many DS correspondents past, he is an SNL "featuring" also-ran. He's actually my least favorite correspondent, although the new lady bombed her first segment. I actually really like Aasif Mandvi.
Dimmukane:
Yeah, but he turned the Republican race into a rip-your-head-off-and-piss-down-your-throat deathmatch.
That's really all.
John Oliver is better, but that stood out.
KvP:
I'll admit his recent segments have been pretty great. His reporting on the Berkeley snafu was as such, mostly because he was a marine himself.
Uber Ritter:
Classic American lit? I myself had some pretty big issues with the Grapes of Wrath, though the narrative is quite strong in places, I'm still more on the 'hate it' side of the equation (at least partly because I found Casey to be an incredibly tedious character- "look at me I'm a transcendentalist Christ figure!" Whup-de-fucking-do)
See my writeup of "Benito Cereno" above. It's Melville, but it's really short (ie a novella/long short story) and it is really good. Note that it rewards a close reading--very few of the many issues raised by the novel, such as freedom's relationship to mastery, are discussed explicitly by the characters or the narrator. Babo, who might be described as the villain, is one of the coolest characters ever, probably. This is a story about Ideas, though it doesn't beat you over the head with them by any means.
Hucklebury Fucking Finn (not to be confused with Fucklebury Finn, which is probably a porn). It's as good as people have said it is. On just about every level. Huck and Jim are one of the greatest pairs in literature, up there with Sancho Panza and Don Quixote. Sure, the ending is a deus ex machina but frankly so are the endings to Philoctetes and As You Like It, and they're both great as well.
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor is fucking intense and bears close reading.
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