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The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida . Learning about the mind of a child with autism. Captivating read
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Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was by Daniel Friebe. A solid book for cycling fans. It was insightful but slow going and too long.

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1984.
A return to a good book.
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Been on a bit of a western kick so almost finished Lonesome Dove, think it’s excellent, also been burning through Tor! The story of German football, I’m a sucker for my football history books and this is a fairly in depth run through of German football from the 1800’s through to the 21st century.

Also I’m finally intending on finishing the Walking Dead, was up to date the whole time back in my uni days but fell off then and with the series now finished I got a hankering to restart and burn through it all, currently on issue 98, good shit.
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Tha1ChiefRocka
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Location: Kansas

I'm currently teaching Waiting For Godot.

Anybody around here read that before?

Do you have any insights for me?

How do I get 16/17 year olds interested in this? Very Happy

We've had our discussion on absurdism (bit of Camus) and its contrasts with existentialism and nihilism. That kind of fried their brains.

I had them read the short story "Axolotl" by Julio Cortazar as a primer for some of those themes, as well as to prepare them for reading something a bit strange.

BozoTyrannus

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Tha1ChiefRocka wrote:

I'm currently teaching Waiting For Godot.

Anybody around here read that before?

Do you have any insights for me?

How do I get 16/17 year olds interested in this? Very Happy

Contrast it with that scene from Inside Out where they homage the hat switching scene.

My overarching fondness for Waiting for Godot is how it's the closest thing to a written Rorschach test I've ever encountered.

Could also try letting them watch the Lindsay-Hogg film version (even though it was meant to never be filmed)
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BozoTyrannus

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Currently I'm reading Persian Fire by Tom Holland, but frankly I'm sick to death of modern historians writing history books that endlessly quote Herodotus but then constantly give reasons why we can't trust Herodotus. Either use him as a source or don't, I'm sick of spending half the book reading your opinion on whether we can trust his version of a specific event or not.
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Tha1ChiefRocka wrote:

I'm currently teaching Waiting For Godot.

How do I get 16/17 year olds interested in this? Very Happy

Think I found out about Waiting For Godot when I was 11 or 12 and it blew my mind that a play could be that. (I also wasn't quite aware how popular of a work it was— I figured it was obscure whoknowswhat). Read it maybe a year or so later when I eventually found a copy and it lived up to expectations. Beckett's remained a heavy influence to me, but Godot has a special place in my heart because of how much it opened my world as to how unconventional you can allow yourself to be. It was proof to me that you can make your own rules. When you're that age you hear a lot of 'Be yourself!' and 'You can do anything!' jargon but I think it took a bleak sap like Beckett to prove it to me.

(I know it's drama, but the mentality applied to all arts)

To be introduced to (what's essentially) a minimalist piece that's so full and complete in a world where you're taught banal formats and stuffy essays which 'must reach the desired word count!' shook my creative process too. A play with six characters, one of which never appears, one of which barely says anything, and another which only has one single gargantuan line. Incredible.

Forcing 16/17 year olds to think anything is cool is kinda difficult.
Those who appreciate it, will.
At the end of the day, it's good stuff, and a fantastic gateway to understanding/deciphering the absurd and surreal.

Tha1ChiefRocka
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Location: Kansas

Thanks Bozo and Hayden!

Good idea with Inside Out, I might steal that.

I plan on showing Lucky's speech from that Hogg version, because it's so damn good.

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Think I found out about Waiting For Godot when I was 11 or 12

You must have have had one interesting childhood!

I definitely want to be more hands off than I typically would be. (In order to have them rely on their own interpretation rather than someone else.)

Thanks for the wise words.

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Patman360 wrote:

Been on a bit of a western kick so almost finished Lonesome Dove, think it’s excellent, also been burning through Tor! The story of German football, I’m a sucker for my football history books and this is a fairly in depth run through of German football from the 1800’s through to the 21st century.

Also I’m finally intending on finishing the Walking Dead, was up to date the whole time back in my uni days but fell off then and with the series now finished I got a hankering to restart and burn through it all, currently on issue 98, good shit.

Lonesome Dove is an amazing book. A bit of a slow burner, but after a while you can't put it down. Not read the other books in the series yet, but on my list. Re-read Dune recently (one of my favs), but another book where I haven't read the rest of the series (also watched the movie not so long ago and really enjoyed it - excited for part two).