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I like this one.

>> No.19470362

>>19470314
I read this when I was a kid anon. One of my favourite books. Hope you have a good weekend

>> No.19470385

>>19470314
I liked the movie

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I was just thinking of this book the other day at work. I only watched the movie when I was a kid, not sure if I should read the novel.

I like Welcome to the N.H.K, and Siddhartha. Both are good simple reads.

>> No.19470437

>>19470314
So dry and shallow it reverses into being as deep as an ocean.

>> No.19470449

>>19470314
>HOLES

Is this a biography about OP’s mom?

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>>19470437
>huehue “dry” and “shallow” and “deep” because they’re digging holes in the desert i’m so clever

>> No.19470908

>>19470437
I actually thought it was fairly deep for kid fic. Like on the surface it seems like a standard fairy tale about magic, but in reality its a story about a kid taking responsibility for himself and the direction of his life. You make a good point about reversal: the part about teaching Zero to read is a fairly straight-forward discussion about basic privilege, we forget what a struggle it was to learn and mostly do it automatically. And the story of Zero's homelessness makes the point: we were able to struggle with reading while Zero was struggling with survival.

Straight-forward moralizing, but what makes it "deep" is the impact it has on Stanley. Zero doesn't just throw his hands up and say "I'm illiterate", he makes plan to learn. And it provokes the argument with X-Ray that makes Stanley understand that letting X-Ray take responsibility for his life in the camp was a mistake.

>> No.19471986

>>19470314
Boring book that glorifies coal burning

>> No.19472009

>>19471986
To be fair, they needed some way to turn her into a spurned cowgirl bandit

>> No.19473260

>>19471986
It also makes it pretty clear that X-ray is just using accusations of racism for social leverage when he starts arguing with Stanley over his deal with Zero.

>> No.19473447

>>19470314
does it talk about poopholes?
otherwise I'm not interested

>> No.19475392

>>19470314
It's propaganda

>> No.19475785

>>19473447
Deuteronomy 23:9-14 sounds more your speed

>> No.19475791

>>19471986