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Jun 26, 2008 12:33PM
I saw that on your reading list and was very surprised! I love this book! It has wonderful resources, and good writing. I thought it was interesting that so many people thought it was rude of her when she was saying that anyone that wants to go to school is stupid. I liked it, it was very refreshing! I was very excited when I saw that you loved it as well.
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About a year and a half ago my then 9 year old girl came home one day and said, mami I want to be home-schooled I feel like I am wasting my time in there!Yeah...
My husband and I started researching about it, fell warm about the idea and before you know it, we just finished 4th grade with her, although she has breezed through LA and reading so she placed a lot higher on those courses than 5th grade for next year. She did very good in the transition and she still visits her friends from school, it gives us time to have more vacations when no one else is breathing down our necks, it was very scary for me at first, but it has worked out great.
I've been homeschooled my entire life (I'm going into 11th grade) and I think it's been wonderful.
I am so glad it works out for you too Laura, most people that have had the opportunity are very happy, homeschooling knits families together strongly and it helps to develop the kids individuality, per our experience.
Have you seen the "Lost Book Club" on the ABC website? Their list of books (52 books) is not as extensive as the ones I've seen here and elsewhere, but they have a really fun interface for browsing through very cool-looking book covers. Also, I haven't checked title by title, but I thought I saw a couple of books that I hadn't seen on other lists.http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/inde...
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Wow, there were a few we didn't have in our list ... and some are very technical.
oh my I have to read that ! (I just saw this post sorry)
Can I join in even though I'm new to this group? I'm trying to work my way through the Lost books, starting with the ones more integral to the plot. I'll post my list now...
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Well, I just noticed that we were supposed to try to read as many as we could on the list before the new season aired. I didn't realize that or I would have read a few more. I still want to complete my list, though. I'm planning to read Stranger in a Strange Land this month.
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I have Stranger in a Strange Land sitting on my shelf waiting its turn...
ok a tad off topic, but i was watching the best clip of the four seasons on abc.go.com and it was about charlie sacraficing to save desmond, and well i just not convinced that he's dead i mean i know they havent talked about him at all for a while, but thats so lost!.. i mean he did say that he could hold his breath for 4 minutes, did he not, and well he had to wait for all the water to rush in to swim out and idk, but i just think that hes still alive
I wish you were right, Olebabe, and entertained this theory too for a while but when I re-watched the DVD he looked pretty drowned in that last scene. He made a sign of the cross and was just floating there. Why would Desmond report him as dead? He would have had to see him swim out the window and head for the surface. ... I think.
Hi Joy, I'm new here too but I just jump in. I wanted to say I have tried a few titles from the list. I tried reading The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne. OMG is that ever boring. It's all just technical stuff about how 5 guys survive on a deserted island and start building things. Maybe it gets better but I gave up on it.I've just gotten Slaughterhouse Five in audiobook form and I know that will be much better.
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The Mysterious Island is one of my favorite Lost Lit novels. It is so closely tied to the show... the writers drew alot from it.... wow. Are you sure you dont want to try it again???
Ok Lori, I'm not that far in.. only where they start building an oven to make bricks and so on... I'll give it a bit more attention. I just felt it started getting all technical talking about chemicals and so on. Not much other action. I hope it gets a bit meatier. Thanks for the comment.
Was the reference to The Little Prince in the last episode? I missed that.Actually Last night I started Slaughterhouse-Five. There are lots of reverences to time jumping. I can sure see where it influenced the show's writers!
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The episode that aired on 2/4/09 is called "The Little Prince." Here's a quote from TV.com under "allusions" for this episode:Le Petit Prince: The episode's title refers to the novel of the same name by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a French writer and aviator. Though outwardly a children's book, it has varied themes on life, perception and human nature. Exupery was French, like Rousseau's science expedition, and met with disaster while travelling and disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Additionally, "Besixdouze" ("B612"), the apparent name of the expedition's lost boat (as per the wreckage on the beach), is a reference to the asteroid on which The Little Prince lives in the book.
I need to add a "well... duh!" to my dumb question about the The Little Prince reference. I rarely pay attention to the title of an episode until some time later when I get the DVD versions.Read Le Petit Prince ages ago. In both French and English. Many years ago I bought a house on a street called "Saint-Exupéry", so of course I just had to read it.
Slaughterhouse-five was a tad depressing but I can see the the time jumping à la Desmond is very similar to poor Billy in Vonnegut's classic.
I'm still slogging through Verne's The Mysterious. Island.
I read The Little Prince a long, long time ago. So I'm happy to have one added to the list that doesn't add to my TBR list. :) But it's one I wouldn't mind rereading at some point.
Yet another book to add to the list: A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda. Read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Separa...
And there is a very nice screen capture here:
http://lost.cubit.net/archives/2009/0...
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thanks for paying attention tho, I am bound to miss one!
Thanks guys for keeping us updated. ;o)
Oh, I didn't even think to look, Lori! I forget it doesn't put the pink "new" when a post is updated.
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And FLashforward will be on TV.... great book, and the lost writers are in on it... if you havent read it yet, I strongly advise you to!!
Now that Lost is over for the season, I am going to need something to occupy the Lost-dedicated portions of my brain. :D This sounds just perfect! I've read some of the titles on the list, but not most of them, so this should be fun!I was also planning on rewatching seasons 1-5 before 6 starts. There has to be lots of stuff I've missed, and it will be a good refresher course so I don't miss anything in the last season! Anyone else planning on doing the same?
That's my plan too Rachel...I have seasons 1-4 on DVD and all of season 5 on my DVR, so I'm going to be rewatching them all and diving into some Lost Lit!
Wow! I've read so few of these. I really need to get on the ball, :).
I am not sure if this is the same book as I only caught a glimpse of the cover and couldn't see the author but in tonight's episode while Ben is digging through the books you see "The Chosen" ... I think it is this one The Chosen but I'm not sure. Anyone catch the author?I scrolled down to look at the book reviews and the first one recommends it for "anyone interested in history, Judaism, forgiveness or friendship." I found it interesting that forgiveness is a theme considering what happened in the episode...
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Let me search around and see if I can confirm this... then I will add it to the list.
I saw that as well Alicia, in fact it seemed fairly obvious that the title of the book had some importance to the episode, considering how it was placed in the scene.
Lori wrote: "Ooh good eye Alicia.Let me search around and see if I can confirm this... then I will add it to the list."
I couldn't find anything last night but it was pretty soon after the episode and I didn't look all that hard.
Lori wrote: "Ooh good eye Alicia.Let me search around and see if I can confirm this... then I will add it to the list."
Did you ever find anything about the book in the last episode? Was that the right one?
This is the right book. I watched last week's episode last night before the new one and they mentioned it in the caption.
How far has everyone gotten with their lists? I am making it a goal this year to put a serious dent in mine.
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God I miss this show. Since it's been off the air, the urge to focus on it's literary influences has lessened :(
I miss it too! I finally got Season 6 (Xmas present) so I have been watching it again. I figure I can prolong the show a little by reading the literature :)
I agree, Lori. Now that the show is off the air, there just doesn't seem to be the same motivation to read the literature. Although I did read five from the list last year - and a couple of them were LONG. So I was glad to finally cross them off my list. I plan at some point to go back and watch it all again, so maybe I'll feel more motivated when I do that.
Luann wrote: "I agree, Lori. Now that the show is off the air, there just doesn't seem to be the same motivation to read the literature. Although I did read five from the list last year - and a couple of them we..."I want to watch them all again too but I think it might be a little more insightful having read most of the lit.
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I think it would be cool to pick out all the things we may have missed originally...
Lori wrote: "Maybe we should all plan a rewatch together... Like one ep a week or something, starting from the beginning, and discuss it now, knowing what we know....I think it would be cool to pick out all t..."
I'd join. That would be fun!
Lori wrote: "Maybe we should all plan a rewatch together... Like one ep a week or something, starting from the beginning, and discuss it now, knowing what we know....I think it would be cool to pick out all t..."
Yes! That would be fun.
I actually am doing pretty good on my Lost Lit List - I think I started in October. I'm rewatching the show as I read my list and I love it. I am currently on Season 2 and (as I'm reading alphabetically) on the Dark Tower series. I would definitely slow down and watch the show with you all! Or even restart the show, as I love love love Season 1.
It would be great to discuss!
Does anyone know of a list that is in order by when the books appear in the show and not alphabetically? I would like to read them more in that order but I didn't want to go through and organize them all if I didn't have to.
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Books mentioned in this topic
The Chosen (other topics)A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan (other topics)
The Little Prince (other topics)
Stranger in a Strange Land (other topics)
Authors mentioned in this topic
Carlos Castaneda (other topics)Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (other topics)
