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A good book to read when books are being banned.returnreturnA good copy to have read; the history of the book establishes it's context. Me? I was in 1st grade at the time. The media walls were a prescient returnfeature. "When are we going to get the fourth wall?"returnreturnand here: applemcg.github.io/#Fahrenheit%20451

A good book to read when books are being banned. The ALA survey has it as #3 in 2022. returnreturnThe history is layered. The opening and closing are in the present. The digression to illustrate a family tree caught my attention as much as the main thread. Plot spoiler: Pecola gets her blue eyes. Soaphead, who performed the miracle, told her the sign she'd know it had happened.

Too much work. The poetry, and a play script section substituted for the narrative. I read it in a sense of obligation to Minnesota authors, including Sinclair Lewis, Bob Dylan, Garrison Keillor, Robert Bly, and by adoption Louise Erdrich. I pondered including this in my collection of Unfinished books. returnreturnBut it saved it's reputation for me with these quotes:returnreturn-----returnreturn'Here now', said the big man, 'you'll have to admit that the labouring man is certainly highly paid -- five- and six-hour days -- it's ridiculous. You can't buy an honest day's work from an man in the trades unions.'returnreturn'You've brought it on yourselves,' insisted Amory, 'You people never make concessions until they're wrung out of you'.returnreturn'What People?'returnreturn'Your class; the class I belonged to until recently; those who by inheritance or industry or brains or dishonesty have become the moneyed class.'