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Watching 'Bananas' and this scene just cracked me up ... (Original Post) marble falls Monday OP
i thought it would be the scene barbtries Monday #1
Reminds me too much of me. Tearing 'Heart' apart in AP English really ruined the book for me ... marble falls Monday #2
I'm not sure I've even read the book, barbtries Tuesday #3
It's not a long novel, 120(?) or so pages in paperback. Carson McCullers was early twenties ... marble falls Tuesday #4

barbtries

(30,344 posts)
1. i thought it would be the scene
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 05:16 PM
Monday

of him cross examining himself.

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My mother and I went to the theater to watch The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - I was about 16 or 17. She would not sit through 2 movies, so i stayed there alone and watched Bananas laughing my ass off the whole time.

marble falls

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2. Reminds me too much of me. Tearing 'Heart' apart in AP English really ruined the book for me ...
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 10:49 PM
Monday

... enjoyed it when I read it in college, I took a women's literature class and read a lot of good books I'd never known about before.

barbtries

(30,344 posts)
3. I'm not sure I've even read the book,
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 08:26 AM
Tuesday

but the movie is really good. Alan Arkin and Sondra Locke.

I know I meant at some point to read the book but I'm just can't say I did for sure.

marble falls

(64,813 posts)
4. It's not a long novel, 120(?) or so pages in paperback. Carson McCullers was early twenties ...
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 08:45 AM
Tuesday

... when she wrote it, and I was about twenty when I read it at college. So it meant more to me at that point.

I thought the movie was good representation of the novel.

I loved Miss Oeschner, my HS AP English teacher, and tearing apart 'Tristam Shandy' and Hardy was more fun than reading it. I was trying to figure out how to put a novel length story-line together. But for some reason 'Heart" didn't need to be disassembled, it was a good, but serious, short read. I found that with the "Awakening" period of American women writers, that I never heard of until collage literature classes, that Carson McCuller was just a later tip of a mountain of good literature.

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