OT School district pulls 'To Kill A Mockingbird' from reading list; 'makes people uncomfortable'

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    You're right. It hasn't aged well. I still think Miller is a great writer in how he set the stage for the Beats. A better take on his character is the Anais Nin selected-diary memoir, Henry And June. She fell in lust with him for a bit and really got to the essence of his strengths and weaknesses.
     
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    if it still is after 4 hours...you should see a doctor
     
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    I thought Mags was running his wife's diner
     
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    yet you frequent S2 OT section? Hemingway was best at short stories not novels
     
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    Or was it ruining his wife's dinner?

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    I lost my bubble. Has anyone seen my bubble? I wont survive without my bubble....
     
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    I enjoyed reading his novella, The Old Man and the Sea, and his memoir, A Moveable Feast.

    His eldest son Jack also published an autobiography, Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman, recounting "his childhood in Paris, education at Dartmouth, work as an OSS agent in World War II, escape from a German POW camp, and experiences fishing around the world."
     
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    I liked the novella published after he died...The Garden of Eden...great frickin' ending
     
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