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- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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
- 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
- Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:27 am
- Forum: Paradise Lost - by John Milton
- Topic: Paradise Lost: Bk I
- Replies: 46
- Views: 38933
- Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:18 pm
- Forum: Lolita - by Vladimir Nabokov
- Topic: Does reading Lolita make you feel "bad"....
- Replies: 58
- Views: 47148