brideofgibbs
brideofgibbs t1_iy0rk3g wrote
Reply to Brave New World question- what is the significance and what is the gesture? by goppeldanger
Isn’t it that the 7 skyscrapers point to the heavens and therefore God but the Brave New World has no religion? The Savage does.
Guildford is an ancient town now city tho its cathedral is 20thC, built after the novel. It does stand at the top of a hill to dominate its environs.
brideofgibbs t1_iu074f9 wrote
Reply to Is A Clockwork Orange difficult to read for Americans due to the dialect of English? by chinawcswing
Lots of Yiddish loan words in there too
brideofgibbs t1_j9kxwh2 wrote
Reply to I don’t want this to sound egotistical, but how can I tell if my reading comprehension is better than my friends? Or if my taste in books is just different? by [deleted]
Reading comprehension isn’t really tested as a thing once you’re out of full time education, unless you have a learning disability. We test it explicitly for children up to 16, looking for it to match their chronological age, then to measure learning disabilities.
Sometimes instructions are tested for readability/ reading age. The US Navy did a lot of this work, originally. It needed “uneducated” enlisted men to be able to read the handbooks!
As an English graduate, and English teacher, I can reassure you, the difference is taste. I read Joyce’s Ulysses as a teen and didn’t notice any difficulties. I cannot get past Ch 3 of Tom Jones. It’s not difficulty; it’s taste.
Plan a presentation for your book club. See if you can show them the charm of Gravity’s Rainbow