Author Archives: rdavies

Love Story, the 1970 weepie directed by Arthur Hiller. (I never saw so many women crying openly after a movie!) Obit. Edmonton’s great Hollywood director Arthur Hiller, 92. Vic Comp’s pride and joy, along with the very funny Leslie Nielsen. Both … Continue reading →

Same old.  Here’s some titles of popular shows this summer: Donating Sperm to My Sister’s Wife 6 Quick Dick Tricks God Is a Scottish Drag Queen IV Things Are a Cock Nerdfucker The “F” Words The Lion, the Bitch, and … Continue reading →

-pretty much anything by Shakespeare–King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth -most of Shaw’s plays –Lord of the Flies –Songs of Innocence and Experience -most of Ibsen’s plays –Animal Farm -Huxley’s Point Counter Point and Brave New World -most of Graham Greene’s novels … Continue reading →

(perhaps the ultimate Dickens’ novel on money and status) -most of Shakespeare’s plays -most of Dickens’ novels –Pride and Prejudice –Sister Carrie –Age of Innocence –The Great Gatsby -most of E.M. Forster’s novels –Heart of Darkness –Wuthering Heights –Jane Eyre  

(1st ed. dust jacket) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn–Mark Twain Sister Carrie–Theodore Dreiser The Age of Innocence–Edith Wharton The Sun Also Rises–Ernest Hemingway The Great Gatsby–F. Scott Fitzgerald The Grapes of Wrath–John Steinbeck My Antonia–Willa Cather To Kill a Mockingbird–Harper Lee … Continue reading →

(scarce 1st paperback ed., U.S. 1949) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man–James Joyce To the Lighthouse–Virginia Woolf Pride and Prejudice–Jane Austen Return of the Native–Thomas Hardy your choice of Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, or Lord … Continue reading →

(the rare 1st American ed.)   A Bird in the House–Margaret Laurence The Loved and the Lost–Morley Callaghan Fifth Business–Robertson Davies Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town–Stephen Leacock The Watch That Ends the Night–Hugh MacLennan The Mountain and the Valley–Ernest … Continue reading →

I have said, after witnessing the deaths of both parents from cancer, that I wouldn’t wish any person or any animal to go through that (not even a worst possible enemy). Riding my bike over to the fire site this morning, I … Continue reading →

The media is blinded by money as revealed in its obsessions with how much movies made at the weekend box office, with the salaries of professional athletes, and with the money side of anything. Money is all that matters. And our … Continue reading →

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