To Read or Not to Read?

July 25, 2007

To Read or Not to Read?

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In recent weeks a brouhaha has been boiling up over the publication, for the first time in English (Little, Brown Young Readers; Reprint edition in the United States), of one of Hergé’s famous comic strip Tintin books, Tintin in the Congo (Tintin au Congo).

Read more about it at Stereotype & Society

posted by Stuart Ewen in books, fiction, politics, society | * | Comments Off

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comments:

Deron Bauman: yep.
Deron Bauman: to put it another way, I’ve been looking for a worse first sentence for fifteen years. and the...
Michael Lang: Fifteen years is impressive. Crap to stand the test of time
Deron Bauman: I found mine fifteen years ago.
Michael Lang: Wow, while I’ve plenty of ideas for awful, I don’t even know where to begin with judging...
Coop: Love this. Will go now to the others.
Terence: Pretend like you don’t care and let the resentment slowly come to a boil over a period of years,...
Aaron Winslow: Of course, you eat cake with your hands. You’re lusty, bold fellows who know how to kick up your...
Rick neece: Danny and I will do everything in our power to have the boys here when you visit,
Michael Lang: Get pissy, stew over whether I’m going to be able to deal with that, become the person’s...
Dave Vogt: I eat cake with my hands, sometimes. Honestly, I’ve just always been more of a cookie man.
walt: I think that if it hasn’t come up until now, either in discussion of politics or the author, that it...
OP: We’ve been sort of drifting apart, for mostly geographic reasons. So it goes.
Sheila Ryan: Taking a look!
Sheila Ryan: If I come visit Rick and Danny, will you come over, Robert? (You, too, Doc?) And maybe we could track...