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Do you remember the classroom maps? They were large and pulled down like a window shade. No folding problems whatsoever, but the wrong size and shape for use in a car.

I have read the book a couple of times with pleasure and did not take offense at his comments about women. Wilde was an equal-opportunity wit, taking potshots at all without gender bias.

The characters from both books appear in other books, so in a sense the stories continue. Both books stand well independently, however. I read The Good Earth as an impressionable teen ager. It would be interesting to read it now and see what I think -- maybe still impressionable, but...

Peder and Pontable, I have enjoyed your comments here and elsewhere. We have to distinguish between how the characters in a book behave and how the author presents the characters. I did not like the character of the General, but he was what he was. I appreciated Marai's skill in presenting...

Yes, and a great contrast to the General who cultivated his bitterness and pride for 41 years. Who had the better life? My reaction to the book is a reaction to the General and the thinking and emotional paralysis he represents. The author is artful in making us see that. But I still would...

You probably won't like this, but here goes.... I find the structure of this book unsatisfying. The first half is background, an account of the early life of Hendrik and Konrad during which we are set up for the meeting of these two former friends after 41 years. Why did they separate? What is...

Females? You want females? Besides Uncle Tom's Cabin, I suggest Charlotte Bronte, Villette George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows

Since we are reading Europeans in July-September, let's have Tender Is the Night (American) in October and Dr. Glas in November. That gives us more time to find a copy of Dr. Glas -- there are lots of copies of the Fitzgerald out there.

I would like to read both Tender Is the Night and Dr. Glas, but not at the same time. One for October and the other for November.

Another book along these lines is Fiasco by Thomas Ricks. I am listening to it on recorded books. In it Ricks spells out a results of the absence of realistic planning for an occupation and transition. He doesn't much fault the troops on the ground for sometimes responding inappropriately...

Do you include a character from an earlier book? Tom, I think was his name. Be sure to have lots of Missouri dialect from the period.

Walking on the treadmill while listing to recorded books on my mp3 player. Driving a computer.

I think of fiction as a way of enlarging experience, both social and otherwise. I cannot possibly live in all the different ages and cultures but through fiction I can experience them. In that way perhaps it is similar to the simulation of a computer game. Other people may seek only the...

It saddens me that we have seen the debasement of a perfectly good word. Discriminating at one time meant the ability to sort things out, to discriminate between the good, the better, and the best. As in the sentence, "He is a discriminating collector."

I like that idea. My three would be Doctor Glas-Hjalmar Söderberg Tender is the Night (1934-F Scot Fitzgerald Uncle Tom's Cabin-Harriet Beecher Stowe

Several books have come up several times: Tender Is the Night Ironweed Doctor Glas We actually need three books, if we are to select for October through December.

Another approach to very long books would be to split any book over 300-400 pages into two months. In a live (face-to-face) book club that works fairly well. I'm not sure we could sustain it online. I like the suggestion of Tender is the Night. Or how about Twain's Life on the Mississippi...

I liked a lot of the books which are now considered classics: The Oz books - we had about 15 of them The Little Colonel series - found them in my grandmother's bookcase Anything by Louisa May Alcott The Jungle Books and Just So stories by Kipling I didn't read any of those books in...

Not only is English literature widely read in India, but you have many excellent writers (some born in India, some emigrants) who write in English: Rushdie, Narayan, Naipaul, Lahiri, Mistry.

Why is Australia a continent and not a large island?