Banned Books Edition: Let’s Read Some $#!7 by Kurt Vonnegut & Angie Thomas
0Welcome to another installment of Let's Read Some $#17!
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1. Read the summary on the back of the book (if applicable).
2. Read the “Forward” and “Preface” (if applicable).
3. If there is no “Introduction,” read [part of] the first chapter.
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Even though the purpose is education, I only read PORTIONS because of DMCA and Copyright.
Today, I read PORTIONS of 2 books:
1. "Slaughterhouse-Five: 50th Anniversary Edition" by Kurt Vonnegut - https://bookshop.org/a/18974/9780385312080
Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American POW. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber's son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming "unstuck in time."
2. "The Hate U Give: Collector's Edition" by Angie Thomas - https://bookshop.org/a/18974/9780062872340
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD STARR CARTER moves between two worlds: the poor black neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend, Khalil, at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.
Soon afterward, Khalil's death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Starr's best friend at school suggests he may have had it coming. When it becomes clear the police have little interest in investigating the incident, protesters take to the streets and Starr's neighborhood becomes a war zone. What everyone wants to know is: What really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does—or does not—say could destroy her community. It could also endanger her life.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Welcome Gamers!
1:25 Read Aloud Prelude/Trigger Warnings
4:05: "Slaughterhouse-Five"
28:24 "The Hate U Give"
37:44 Commentary/Closing
39:22 Bookshop
40:56 Farewell
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