Pretty good, but that so little about this titan of literature has been produced since (and so little of it on TH-cam) says as much about our country as anything Lewis wrote. (Especially now.) Thanks for posting this; I enjoyed it.
Everybody knows you don't learn a damn thing in schools. Case in point: when I was in grade school and high school I stayed in trouble. If there were two fights on any given day I was in one of them. My horrid behavior continued until I by some miracle graduated. When I got to college I graduated Cum Laude and knocked off my masters in a year and did my doctoral thesis at the University of Chicago's research library though didn't earn my PhD but finished the work and got married. In quick time I became a professor within the Chicago City College system, wrote three books two of them published with the third being prepared as an audio work.All my life I've despised school but had a passion for learning. Sinclair is one of my personal heroes!
Fred C. Wilson III Thanks. Your comment means so much to me. I was flunked forward and finally finished with a GED. Only went to college to audit classes on teaching the severely learning disabled because of my son- and he was the one to graduate. I am a reader of classical literature and contemporary literature. I belong to one group that studies “Ulysses” e Rey year, and mother that holds Zoom meetings covering the Great Courses using St Johns method of discussing texts. I own over 3,500 books, not including Scribd, kindle, or audible. I’ve spent the last several days watching plays put on by the National Theatre on TH-cam during the Coronavirus. Wish they did this all of the time for those of us who don’t live close enough to many of the major cities. I know I’m intelligent, but with bipolar have a hard time finishing schoolwork. Sigh of relief... I can finally tell someone my story.
Read It Can't Happen Here. It is stunning how it anticipates the Presidency of Donald Trump. He seemed to have delved deeply into the character of a nation 80 years before the actual event.
One must never forget that Sinclair Lewis was a cynic and tended to focus on the negatives of small town life, religion, capitalism, etc. Not that they don't exist but he eliminated any positives in the process. He tended to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I think his novels are brilliant but rather one-sided.
@@brindlekintales when I was going to VoTec I wrote: Out of the Corn. Corn corn corn barbar church church. corn corn corn barbar church church. corn corn corn barbar Church Church. beans beans beans barbar church church. beans beans beans barbar church church. Beans beans beans barbar Church church. wheat wheat wheat barbar church church. wheat wheat wheat barbar Church Church. Wheat wheat wheat barbar church church. And a lot of these small towns there's a thing referred to as the church bar ratio the more bars in town the more fun it is.
Lewis's life and novels were a search for him personally. He knew American culture mostly lacked an intellectual side, but even he could not put his finger on exactly what that meant. He died in Rome having both come home and short of realizing, as millions of Americans fail to realize and vow never to be a part of - Catholicism, the Church and Faith established by the Son of God, was actually what he had been searching for. It had the intellectual food he and fellow Americans starve for, but more importantly the salvation. Though he never officially joined, possibly never realized it was what he searched for, in his search he had his salvation - God credits us that we try to find Him.
Of course he drank himself to death - imagine a mind like his seeing the world we inhabit, even today! Like Bukowski he could only have been two things, the alternative was a Messiah - and we nailed him between two thieves!
What I want to know, is his big beef with Upton Sinclair? I know He was a part of Halcion House but why did he become such a critic in "IT CANT HAPPEN HERE"
Pretty good, but that so little about this titan of literature has been produced since (and so little of it on TH-cam) says as much about our country as anything Lewis wrote. (Especially now.) Thanks for posting this; I enjoyed it.
Everybody knows you don't learn a damn thing in schools. Case in point: when I was in grade school and high school I stayed in trouble. If there were two fights on any given day I was in one of them. My horrid behavior continued until I by some miracle graduated. When I got to college I graduated Cum Laude and knocked off my masters in a year and did my doctoral thesis at the University of Chicago's research library though didn't earn my PhD but finished the work and got married. In quick time I became a professor within the Chicago City College system, wrote three books two of them published with the third being prepared as an audio work.All my life I've despised school but had a passion for learning. Sinclair is one of my personal heroes!
Fred C. Wilson III Thanks. Your comment means so much to me. I was flunked forward and finally finished with a GED. Only went to college to audit classes on teaching the severely learning disabled because of my son- and he was the one to graduate. I am a reader of classical literature and contemporary literature. I belong to one group that studies “Ulysses” e Rey year, and mother that holds Zoom meetings covering the Great Courses using St Johns method of discussing texts. I own over 3,500 books, not including Scribd, kindle, or audible. I’ve spent the last several days watching plays put on by the National Theatre on TH-cam during the Coronavirus. Wish they did this all of the time for those of us who don’t live close enough to many of the major cities.
I know I’m intelligent, but with bipolar have a hard time finishing schoolwork.
Sigh of relief... I can finally tell someone my story.
Read It Can't Happen Here. It is stunning how it anticipates the Presidency of Donald Trump. He seemed to have delved deeply into the character of a nation 80 years before the actual event.
And Babbitt presciently etches the national pathology that led millions to be deluded by Trump.
Bel documentario su un grandissimo scrittore la cui onestà intellettuale e il cui talento sono ancora oggi scomodi.
Saw the Sinclair Lewis special exhibit at the Minnesota history center and picked up “It Can’t Happen Here” and I am excited to read it.
He said Dale Carnegie's method was basically yessing the boss and making companies right with God. That was enough for me to get interested.
I love this narrator
Yes. He was excellent. Bit like Bill Kurtis.
He's no Percy Helton but he does indeed have an xlnt voice & does a marvelous job ! :-)
One must never forget that Sinclair Lewis was a cynic and tended to focus on the negatives of small town life, religion, capitalism, etc. Not that they don't exist but he eliminated any positives in the process. He tended to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I think his novels are brilliant but rather one-sided.
I wrote a poem once on how all the little towns together into one.
@@brindlekintales when I was going to VoTec I wrote:
Out of the Corn.
Corn corn corn barbar church church.
corn corn corn barbar church church.
corn corn corn barbar Church Church.
beans beans beans barbar church church.
beans beans beans barbar church church.
Beans beans beans barbar Church church.
wheat wheat wheat barbar church church.
wheat wheat wheat barbar Church Church.
Wheat wheat wheat barbar church church.
And a lot of these small towns there's a thing referred to as the church bar ratio the more bars in town the more fun it is.
@@brindlekintales had to go back and edit so the stanzas lineup. Thank you.
Lewis's life and novels were a search for him personally. He knew American culture mostly lacked an intellectual side, but even he could not put his finger on exactly what that meant. He died in Rome having both come home and short of realizing, as millions of Americans fail to realize and vow never to be a part of - Catholicism, the Church and Faith established by the Son of God, was actually what he had been searching for. It had the intellectual food he and fellow Americans starve for, but more importantly the salvation. Though he never officially joined, possibly never realized it was what he searched for, in his search he had his salvation - God credits us that we try to find Him.
Maybe I missed it, but I haven't heard the name of the town unless it ia called Gopher Prairie. Is there actually a town by this name in Minn?
Of course he drank himself to death - imagine a mind like his seeing the world we inhabit, even today!
Like Bukowski he could only have been two things, the alternative was a Messiah - and we nailed him between two thieves!
What year is this from? It seems like 90s
What I want to know, is his big beef with Upton Sinclair? I know He was a part of Halcion House but why did he become such a critic in "IT CANT HAPPEN HERE"
fix your audio
Anybody who wants to understand American culture needs to read Babbitt.
Child abuse is not a fracass
I'm actually friends with the merits that's funny.
37:50
49:39
Typical late '60s- early '70s audio/production values...
A severe alcoholic.
Oh my this is soooo boring. Dang!!
Lewis was an atheist, case closed.