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[Janice]

Sorry, LG. I missed this.

First, the narrator is talking about his son accessing online support groups to help him deal with his mother's death, except that the Internet was not used by the public in 1986. He then mentions something about the cemetery that Bruce Lee and his son Brandon were buried in, except that Brandon Lee didn't die until 1993. It seemed like the author was 10 years ahead of himself.

[Kevin]

Considering Physics of the Future or Moonwalking With Einstein to read for my upcoming travels. Anyone read either of these?

[Félix]

They sound very good.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Janice wrote: "Sorry, LG. I missed this.

First, the narrator is talking about his son accessing online support groups to help him deal with his mother's death, except that the Internet was not used by the publi..."

Oh, okay. You were talking about a different book. I thought you were talking about Freedom.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "Considering Physics of the Future or Moonwalking With Einstein to read for my upcoming travels. Anyone read either of these?"

No, but I think the New York Times did a long article on Moonwalking with Einstein, if you want a preview.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Reading Faithful Place.

[Helena]

Currently reading:

The Fountainhead & Kafka on the Shore

[Pam]

WELL, FREEDOM has been slow going.. but relationships are becoming more complicated now.. hard to predict where this book is going. It seems to be about the generation that was 'self-determining.' How they fare.. not so well so far.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

The 19th Wife.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

I'm curious what your thoughts on this one will be. I have a fascination with polygamy.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

So far I'm liking it. I'm finding the current day story more interesting than the 19th century one.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Phil might like this one as he is so into Mormons.

[Phil]

Wasn't a movie made about that one? Where (view spoiler)[one of the wives kills the husband, and the wrong one is accused? (hide spoiler)]

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Yes, I see there was a Lifetime movie made about it. Not clicking on your spoiler.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Stacia *eyes up here* wrote: "I'm curious what your thoughts on this one will be. I have a fascination with polygamy."

You mean celestial marriage.

[Sally, la reina]

Phil is into Mormons?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

He loves running into them at the store in their Little House on the Prairie dresses. (Which they wear in this book too.)

[Phil]

They swarm Costco most days of the week. Five or six wives, with several children in tow. The prairie dresses with cell phones at the hip seem quite anachronistic.

[Brittomart]

Cannery Row

"Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears than the solar system of stars."

If that ain't a sentence, I don't know what is.

[Stina]

@Janice- I had the same problem with
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, but I finished it! Be glad you put it down... the anachronisms don't stop!

@LG- I really enjoyed The 19th Wife, but then I also have a fascination with the Mormons.

@Everyone reading Freedom- Godspeed... I want to read your thoughts on that one.

[Brittomart]

My mind = blown.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Stacia *eyes up here* wrote: "I'm curious what your thoughts on this one will be. I have a fascination with polygamy."

You mean celestial marriage."

Hah. I have read a couple of autobiographies/biographies as well as a couple of fiction revolving around "celestial marriage." I also adore the show Big Love.

I love alternate lifestyles. They fascinate me.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

This book sure makes it seem like a very bad deal for the women and children.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

I was saddened after reading

[[deleted user]]

Are the women allow to have more than one husband?

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Not in that particular religion, but it does happen in other parts of the world.

[[deleted user]]

We always generally get ripped off when it comes to religion.

[Cynthia]

Lobstergirl wrote: "So far I'm liking it. I'm finding the current day story more interesting than the 19th century one."

LG, one of my favorite parts of that story was the fictional thesis by the Women's Studies major at BYU. It made me wonder if BYU actually offers such a major.

[Cynthia]

Lobstergirl wrote: "He loves running into them at the store in their Little House on the Prairie dresses. (Which they wear in this book too.)"

I enjoy their matching hairstyles.

[Pam]

There's a big difference between the LDS Church and the FUNDAMENTAL Mormons..

[Cynthia]

Right, Pam. Huge difference. FundamentalIST.

[Pam]

Ok.. I'll stay away form "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet." I should probably have avoided "Freedom," too, but I'm almost finished.. I'll post a review tonight. NEXT I'm going to start, "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet." I highly reccomend a book I read about a month ago to everyone: MINK RIVER.. by Brian Doyle.. I thought it was really fun and very satisfying.. I wish it could have kept on going...(like this silly post has..sorry!!)

[Pam]

IST.

[Cynthia]

Thank You. The 19th wife does a good job of distinguishing between the LDS Church and the Fundamentalist Mormons. For the most part they want absolutely nothing to do with one another.

[[deleted user]]

I tried to read The Man in the High Castle again...was quickly distracted by Ghost Stories by Edith Wharton, which is quite good, but the fact that each story is autonomous lead me to read other things at the same time. I started Catch 22, but wasn't feeling it. So, now I am happily reading Starship Troopers by Heinlein (which I am surprised to be enjoying so much as I HATED Stranger in a Strange Land) with every intention of returning to Edith Wharton.

[Brittomart]

I am receiving a copy of Freedom through the Goodreads Bookswap. Am I going to hate it?

[Sarah]

iBritt wrote: "I am receiving a copy of Freedom through the Goodreads Bookswap. Am I going to hate it?"

Probably! But hopefully in a fun way? Feel free to snark about it here.

[Pam]

Well, iBritt, everyone has their own individual reading preferences. I think FREEDOM has a unique message.. but I think that he should have cut out about half of it and just got to his point. He's comparing his characters lives to democracy.. starting out as bright, unsoiled with lots of promise and then with age becoming corrupt/disgusting/immoral...etc. If you read it.. you tell me what YOU think..

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Cynthia wrote: "Thank You. The 19th wife does a good job of distinguishing between the LDS Church and the Fundamentalist Mormons."

It's true, the grad student who is writing the paper on the 19th wife is an LDS member but she is portrayed as very kind and caring. The main character, who has been banished from the Fundamentalist (First) sect, ends up meeting her and unloading his whole story, and she totally understands, because she knows both the LDS side, from being LDS, and the fundamentalist side, from researching it.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Cynthia wrote: "LG, one of my favorite parts of that story was the fictional thesis by the Women's Studies major at BYU. It made me wonder if BYU actually offers such a major. "

I'm not seeing it on their website, among the graduate programs.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

iBritt wrote: "I am receiving a copy of Freedom through the Goodreads Bookswap. Am I going to hate it?"

I don't know if you will, I didn't. People seem to judge it very strongly before they've read it, for some reason.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

If you're afraid of his fiction, you could always start with one of his nonfiction books. He has a memoir and a book of essays.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

No, I didn't mean size, I just meant in general. A lot of people seem to have an aversion to him in general.

Unless I know it's something I'll absolutely hate, I tend to ignore the inside flaps of books and just read the first chapter. If it doesn't do anything for me, fine, maybe I'll give up then.

[Pam]

yea.. LG knows her stuff. I wish I would have asked her about Franzen before I read FREEDOM. I thought (just last night) that I finally had a grasp on what this book was about.. now I've decided that the writer just kept writing cause he thought eventually a story would emerge somewhere along the line..I would not read this mammoth again.

[Pam]

I'm hoping someone reads MINK RIVER!!! I loved this book.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Yeah, I don't think I would ever read a Franzen book twice. But then I'm not much of a repeat reader, except with a very tiny number of books and authors.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

The Dead Secret.

[[deleted user]]

Finished Man In The High Castle...bastard.

Back to The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Finished and love the little curseworking/mafia world that's going on here.

Working on one adult urban fantasy and one YA epic/traditional fantasy now.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I should be reading the giveaways I got last fall, and writing reviews. But it feels like class assignments. I wanna read something else.