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by Raving Lunatic
Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:45 am
Forum: The Picture of Dorian Gray - by Oscar Wilde
Topic: Wilde moving away from a strictly Christian interpretation
Replies: 35
Views: 20495

I would like to apologize as well. I voted for this title and have not had a chance to read it. I am in the process of moving houses and time is not a luxury I have. I have managed to read a bit of the first chapter. Basil and Lord Henry seem like they are very different ends of the spectrum when it...
by Raving Lunatic
Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:38 am
Forum: Lolita - by Vladimir Nabokov
Topic: Does reading Lolita make you feel "bad"....
Replies: 58
Views: 47148

I read CNN in the mornings and at lunch. One of the biggest news stories coming out of the Middle East is that of child brides. There was a 42 year old man who married an 8 year old girl. This girl was forced to marry due to her father's debt to the said groom. The reporter later received a phone ca...
by Raving Lunatic
Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:38 am
Forum: Dreams From My Father - by Barack Obama
Topic: Dreams from My Father - Preface, Intro & Ch. 1, 2, 3 &am
Replies: 31
Views: 25061

I am now on Chapter 3, so I am a little behind. I also trying to trying to keep my voting reasoning out of the reading of this book. It is hard though. I too have been amazed by the good natured stories the family have been telling him. My father and biological mother were divorced, thus leaving my ...
by Raving Lunatic
Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:20 pm
Forum: Authors: Tell us about your NON-FICTION book!
Topic: Non-Fiction Suggestions...
Replies: 10
Views: 3722

I have one of the Marquis de Sade's books and fournd it really really distrubing. In fact so much that I had to stop reading it. Although reading his biography might be interesting, I am a little weary of it. But willing to try it on. I also have the book Alice . It is the biography of the wild chil...
by Raving Lunatic
Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:45 am
Forum: The Name of the Rose - by Umberto Eco
Topic: Discussion format - what would be best?
Replies: 8
Views: 10742

I think that a free flowing chat would be best. Even when we do have regulated chapter discussions, sometimes the thoughts make a wide right turn and get off subject. Don't get me wrong it is relevent to the oveall book but not to the chapter persay.
by Raving Lunatic
Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:24 pm
Forum: Dreams From My Father - by Barack Obama
Topic: Dreams from My Father - Preface, Intro & Ch. 1, 2, 3 &am
Replies: 31
Views: 25061

I have actually found the book in pdf and reading it on lunch breaks here at work. I was expecting him to talk about how he is so well suited for politics. This is exactly what Hilary Clinton did in her book. That is the main reason why I stopped reading her book. I couldn't get passed the this is w...
by Raving Lunatic
Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:48 am
Forum: What non-fiction book should we read and discuss next?
Topic: Non-Fiction Book Suggestions Wanted: Mar. & Apr. 2009
Replies: 21
Views: 12223

I would have to go with Jimmy Carter's book. I heard a discussion about it on NPR and it sounds interesting.
by Raving Lunatic
Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:37 am
Forum: The Secret Garden - by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Topic: The Secret Garden: Chapters 22, 23 and 24
Replies: 28
Views: 19849

But Colin's science was based off of magical logic. Don't mean to offend anyone but his logic sounds alot like Scientology.
by Raving Lunatic
Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:27 am
Forum: Paradise Lost - by John Milton
Topic: Paradise Lost: Bk I
Replies: 46
Views: 38933

When I wrote my last post and during the whole time I am reading this poem that very song is ringing through my head. I have kind of stop reading the poem myself but I will get back on it this week.

WildCityWoman,
Just push through it. You can do it! I believe in you.
by Raving Lunatic
Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:18 pm
Forum: Lolita - by Vladimir Nabokov
Topic: Does reading Lolita make you feel "bad"....
Replies: 58
Views: 47148

Unfortunately, that is the sad truth

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