Have you ever read novels written by Japanese writers? <br>If so, what would you recommend me?<br><br>What is your favorite foreign literature? I hope this...
I apologize for not being at the discussion of Ironweed last night....I had a bit of a family emergency and didn't even have time to boot the computer to leave...
hi.. I didn't make the chat either, I wonder if anyone was there. <br><br>About the book though, I don't believe that just because what you thought was going...
check out this site I found about reading Ironweed. It's some sort of teaching plan or reading plan for book groups.. It has some interesting questions and...
I guess I was wrong. English writers do not have a monoply on doom and gloom. These last two books certainly were not filled with happiness and joy. I realize ...
I would venture to say that very few great books in any language deal at any length with happiness and joy. They are great emotions to experience but do not...
What is the deal with Tabacco Road? I'm not sure if it's meant as humor or seriousness. Written during the Depression my sense is that it was a time in our...
I agree. I came away with some sense of hope from the Grapes of Wrath. I didn't mean to imply that everything has to be all sweetness and light but usually I ...
I'm not sure either. I do agree that the writer should have shown some compassion for his characters.<br>I think maybe in Ironweed the characters at least took...
Hello all. I've read the first 8 chapters of Tobacco Road so far. I think the author wanted to show how depressing the lives of the characters were. The ...
Possibly, as I may have said in an earlier post, Caldwell's point was that--given these circumstances of poverty, ignorance and hopelessness--this is what...
The rather ironic thing to consider now is that the sexual content is passe, but the very un-politically correct characterization of poor people would be an...
That is certainly true in a great many areas of literature and social life. It has struck me more than once that today jokes about sex are about the only ones ...
The sexual content of Tobacco Road was very mild by today's standards ..... just the concept of a 12 year old girl married to a 40ish guy, and a 16 year old...
Well finished the novel today. The characters in the novel were very very poor and also very very .... stupid? mentally challenged? It was hard to sympathize ...
As I recall, GOD'S LITTLE ACRE was even more depressing and the characters more degraded than those of TOBACCO ROAD. It has been some years since I read them, ...
Hello,<br><br>I'm new to the group and I see that several of you are members of Classics Reading Group. I have had a terrible time getting into the November ...
hi kim<br>I hope to discuss Ironweed some more when you are finished. It seems like we jumped right over it and started talking about Tobacco Road which the...
Jason, I'd be interested in your opinion of MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN which I have not read; I read Rushdie's latest THE GROUND BENEATH HER FEET last summer and ...
Well half way through it I think it's one of the best books I've ever read. His storytelling flows like a symphony, building a scene piece by piece until it...
Jason,<br>I have finished Iwonweed. Wow. It was a truly amazing book in so many ways. Do I dare to hope some of the other selections will be up for the ...
Glad to hear you appreciated the book as much as I did. I rented Ironweed the movie last night for the first time. What a horrible film. I do not recommend it...
Hi everybody,<br>well, as I'm most excited that I'm about to receive one more set of new books I've decided to let you know what I'll be reading next:<br>not ...
The schedule for the next month is as follows:<br><br>Nov. 20 -- Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell<br>Dec. 03 -- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie<br>Dec....
I found a copy of "Ironweed" for $1.75 at the local used book store. Everyone's posts about the novel were so positive I've decided to give it a read. I'll ...
I checked on bookfinder.com and a used copy can be had for considerably less. I am puzzled that I literally do not remember ever hearing of this book or its ...
Well according to the Calendar, which I have no idea who assigned these dates, Midnight's Children is supposed to go all the way until the first week in ...
