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Old 07-17-2008, 02:22 PM
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Re: What are you reading?

I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull about a year ago (one of the most hairbrained New Age ascend-to-a-higher-plane pieces of watsit I ever came across). Yesterday, I was in the used book room at the library, buying some cheap paperbacks (5/$1 or $0.25 each). I bought lots of classics I haven't read, blah blah blah, and something caught my eye. "Jonathan Segal Chicken," a satire of the original, by the same people who wrote the Oddfather. I read it last night (it's about as long as the original). It was quite funny in places. When Jonathan Segal Chicken flew for the first time, the hens were so startled they went ahead and squarely laid four eggs, some laid square eggs, and some were so shocked they went ahead and laid cheese omelets.

That kind of thing. Worth $0.25, but not much more.
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