Comments on: Book club ideas and other business http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:17:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Brian in the Great White North http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457840 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:51:31 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457840 I just finished the 848 dense pages of "The Crimson Petal and the White". It's a post-modern Victorian novel about class (both in the caste sense, and whether one has some or none), women's rights, and prostitution. The author, Michel Faber, is a man of immense gifts. I can't do this book justice in this format, so I can only conclude by saying: add this gem to your list. You'll thank me. I just finished the 848 dense pages of “The Crimson Petal and the White”. It’s a post-modern Victorian novel about class (both in the caste sense, and whether one has some or none), women’s rights, and prostitution. The author, Michel Faber, is a man of immense gifts. I can’t do this book justice in this format, so I can only conclude by saying: add this gem to your list. You’ll thank me.

]]> by: Brian in the Great White North http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457838 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:47:13 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457838 I just finished the 848 dense pages of "The Crimson Petal and the White". It's a post-modern Victorian novel about class (both in the caste sense, and whether one has some or none), women's rights, and prostitution. The author, Michel Faber, is a man of immense gifts. I can't do this book justice in this format, so I can only conclude by saying: add this gem to your list. You'll thank me. I just finished the 848 dense pages of “The Crimson Petal and the White”. It’s a post-modern Victorian novel about class (both in the caste sense, and whether one has some or none), women’s rights, and prostitution. The author, Michel Faber, is a man of immense gifts. I can’t do this book justice in this format, so I can only conclude by saying: add this gem to your list. You’ll thank me.

]]> by: sam http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457654 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:21:25 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457654 <i>Am I the only one that couldn’t answer truthfully yes to any of the lists of books I’d read all of? I guess I need to read some more classics.</i> I almost had that problem, but I obsessively read Stephen King when I was between ages 10 and 12, so I got one of them. The problem was that on all of the other lists, there would be one book I never read (I was never forced to read Moby Dick in school, for instance, but I read all the others). And hey, I read Don Quixote in the original spanish as well, but I just kept an english version around for stuff that I didn't understand. Cliff Notes were forbidden in my house. Am I the only one that couldn’t answer truthfully yes to any of the lists of books I’d read all of? I guess I need to read some more classics.

I almost had that problem, but I obsessively read Stephen King when I was between ages 10 and 12, so I got one of them. The problem was that on all of the other lists, there would be one book I never read (I was never forced to read Moby Dick in school, for instance, but I read all the others).

And hey, I read Don Quixote in the original spanish as well, but I just kept an english version around for stuff that I didn’t understand. Cliff Notes were forbidden in my house.

]]> by: Raine http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457565 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:52:11 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457565 I had the same problem as witless chum to the question of books that I'd read. I'd read from 2 of the books to half of them on each of the lists... I think that should have been a possible answer on that one... And it was Don Quijote in the original spanish that sent me to Cliff Notes--not an official one but an online summary/translation. Does it count when you're using it to understand a completely different language?? I had the same problem as witless chum to the question of books that I’d read. I’d read from 2 of the books to half of them on each of the lists… I think that should have been a possible answer on that one…

And it was Don Quijote in the original spanish that sent me to Cliff Notes–not an official one but an online summary/translation. Does it count when you’re using it to understand a completely different language??

]]> by: witless chum http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457455 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:54:56 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457455 I'm only a literate good citizen. Crap. Am I the only one that couldn't answer truthfully yes to any of the lists of books I'd read all of? I guess I need to read some more classics. I’m only a literate good citizen. Crap.

Am I the only one that couldn’t answer truthfully yes to any of the lists of books I’d read all of? I guess I need to read some more classics.

]]> by: Blue Jean http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457392 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:37:06 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457392 I got the same as Christina. "Other people's grammatical errors make you insane." What a burn! But it sounds about right. I got the same as Christina. “Other people’s grammatical errors make you insane.” What a burn! But it sounds about right.

]]> by: david mizner http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457324 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:49:55 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457324 Faludi, based on her op-ed in the Times, which was taken from her book. Till I'd read her piece, I'd never made the connection between the quintisentially America fear of death and our experience killng and being killed by Native Americans. Also, Backlash beautifully dissected the mainstream media, and I suspect this one will do the same. Faludi, based on her op-ed in the Times, which was taken from her book. Till I’d read her piece, I’d never made the connection between the quintisentially America fear of death and our experience killng and being killed by Native Americans.

Also, Backlash beautifully dissected the mainstream media, and I suspect this one will do the same.

]]> by: Christina http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457319 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:35:29 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457319 Faludi Obsessive-compulsive bookworm. Faludi

Obsessive-compulsive bookworm.

]]> by: shah8 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457317 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:34:15 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457317 I wouldn't mind Faludi myself. I have yet to read one of her books (though I did enjoy the NYT column that was reference here...) If the proprietor would like to try something a little different...Why not give Adam Clark's <b>Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together</b> a spin? http://www.amazon.com/Being-There-Putting-Brain-Together/dp/0262531569/ref=pd_bbs_sr_10/105-3975774-2746007?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1192051795&amp;sr=8-10 It's one of those sneaky books that says quite a bit more than the actual subject matter about AI, robots, mind, body, and consciousness. I wouldn’t mind Faludi myself. I have yet to read one of her books (though I did enjoy the NYT column that was reference here…)

If the proprietor would like to try something a little different…Why not give Adam Clark’s Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together a spin?
http://www.amazon.com/Being-There-Putting-Brain-Together/dp/0262531569/ref=pd_bbs_sr_10/105-3975774-2746007?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192051795&sr=8-10

It’s one of those sneaky books that says quite a bit more than the actual subject matter about AI, robots, mind, body, and consciousness.

]]> by: GotDaFeevah http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457295 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:57:49 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/10/book-club-ideas-and-other-business/#comment-457295 I got "Literate Good Citizen." I'm satisfied with that. I have not participated in the book club before, but I might this time. I vote for Faludi. I got “Literate Good Citizen.” I’m satisfied with that.

I have not participated in the book club before, but I might this time. I vote for Faludi.

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