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Great Books Discussion Group - 11/24/2008 1:03:39 AM
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cih92
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I am going to start attending a Great Books discussion group next month. A Great Books discussion group is a book club where the participants read and discuss the classics. Does anyone else belong to a similiar book club?
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RE: Great Books Discussion Group - 11/24/2008 2:26:39 PM
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Auben
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I'm not, but that sounds fun.
What's your first read?
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RE: Great Books Discussion Group - 11/24/2008 5:57:32 PM
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cih92
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quote:
ORIGINAL: Auben
I'm not, but that sounds fun.
What's your first read?
The first read is a chapter from Michael Foucault's book, Discipline and Punish. In a couple of months, we will start reading this book: http://store.greatbooks.org/product_info.php?cPath=12_186&products_id=286
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RE: Great Books Discussion Group - 11/27/2008 8:23:49 AM
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scottmcc1
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Has anyone read:
Brothers Karamazov
by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.
I may want to read this book. What keeps me from reading Russian novels is the names. I can't pronounce them and then I get them mixed up. Then I am lost.
Reading reviews on Amazon I may check it out Friday after Thanksgiving at the library.
Here is a very good review by a writer that has gone through much suffering.
< Message edited by scottmcc1 -- 11/27/2008 8:55:44 AM >
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RE: Great Books Discussion Group - 11/27/2008 11:15:09 AM
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Auben
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I like Brothers Karamazov as well.
BK is not as bad as other Russian novels (War and Peace for instance). One important thing to remember is that there are 4 brothers and that the Russians have given names, names relating to their parentage (Ivanov means son of Ivan, Ivanova means daughter of Ivan), and maybe a family name thrown in as well. Some of the brothers also have nicknames. Their first/given name shortened in a cute way (like Alyosha) the way a family does. The beloved brother in this book has 2-3 of these but they can be recognized easily in context.
Just get a piece of paper for a bookmark. Write down the characters names as they come. Don't try to pronounce them. On one side put the family (father, 4 brothers). On the other side put down the secondary characters with a descriptive word of their position or job.
This book is well worth this extra work.
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RE: Great Books Discussion Group - 11/28/2008 10:02:38 AM
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scottmcc1
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I am going to get the book from the library today. My job gives me today Friday as another holiday. I will ride my bicycle down and back which will be about 17 miles. A good morning workout.
I first planed to read it for entertainment, but now I plan to use the problems the book presents and make Bible studies out of them.
I will use your notes plan Auben, thanks. I may also get the cliff notes Artemis, which will help me defining the problems and starting Bible studies.
If my plan starts working I will buy the book.
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RE: Great Books Discussion Group - 12/1/2008 1:28:15 AM
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cih92
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When I was in Jr. High, we had Junior Great Books in my literature class. We read classic short stories and excerpts from longer works and discussed them like a book club (more so than we would normally do with a literature class). We only did it for a year, though. I'm not sure why...
That must have been an interesting class. I'm sure you enjoyed it.
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RE: Great Books Discussion Group - 12/1/2008 1:32:19 AM
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cih92
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I got interested in reading the Great Books or classics when I was in college. I had some literature courses in college and I remember reading Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, the Bible, and so on.
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