![]() Indeed, I’m starting to think the original masters (not counting Tolstoy or Margaret Mitchell, of course) of the historically hefty novel, Uris and James Michener, are dying slow, torturous second deaths. Certainly, The Simpsons’ target demographic doesn’t exactly overlap with historical fiction-reading book nerds, so I started wondering then how many people knew Leon Uris from Leonardo DiCaprio.Īnd that’s a question I’ve been thinking about even more lately. Trinity is in my Top 5 favorite books of all time and I’ve read every word Leon Uris has ever published. ![]() ** When that episode first aired in 2001, I had a near melt-down of excitement - the kind of giddiness you only experience when you get a really obscure reference. ![]() “Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris,” says Cletus, the Slack-Jawed Yokel, in a memorable Simpsons episode. ![]()
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