Book Suggestions - Page 5

tristanrobin · #41 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 01:39 PM

I love "Wicked!!!!!!!!!!"

I've read it four times - and would happily read it four more times!!!!!!

Also, his "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" is wonderful.

...and, though Wicked is political, it's not offensively so

and after we read it - we can all meet in NY and see the musical! (which is a very different style than the book - but still delightful)

Idealogically Promiscuous · #42 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by tristanrobin

I love "Wicked!!!!!!!!!!"

I've read it four times - and would happily read it four more times!!!!!!

Also, his "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" is wonderful.

...and, though Wicked is political, it's not offensively so

and after we read it - we can all meet in NY and see the musical! (which is a very different style than the book - but still delightful)

The musical is also playing permanently in L.A., just an fyi.

tristanrobin · #43 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 01:46 PM

I saw it several years ago with the original cast on Broadway - it was SO much fun. I just loved it. It's not nearly as dark as the book - but the story is (pretty much) the same. Since then, I've seen it twice on tour, neither production anywhere near as fabulous as the Broadway version. I think you really need a permanent theatre to have that show installed properly. The touring companies just can't do it justice.

Idealogically Promiscuous · #44 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by tristanrobin

I saw it several years ago with the original cast on Broadway - it was SO much fun. I just loved it. It's not nearly as dark as the book - but the story is (pretty much) the same. Since then, I've seen it twice on tour, neither production anywhere near as fabulous as the Broadway version. I think you really need a permanent theatre to have that show installed properly. The touring companies just can't do it justice.

I never got to see it but now that I live in Cali, it is on my list of things to go do...get down to LA and see Wicked.

Idealogically Promiscuous · #45 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by bhkad

How outrageous that a POLITICAL online discussion forum book club should discuss the most urgent issue facing mankind BEFORE it tackles self-help issues.

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Bkhad, I have gone through the entire thread and I only have this to say: if you would like to discuss these books, offer them as a suggestion and then deal with it if there is no interest.

It is clear to me that all of the participants thus far have asked to discuss literature without putting the restriction of it being polticially motivated literature. On this particular issue, you are outnumbered and out voted. We will keep your suggestions in mind for a time when/if that is the flavor we wish to pursue. However, now is not that time.

To All: I have a suggestion. Let's all make a list of books we would like to read or share/discuss with everyone and then we can select one from the completed list. We'll take suggestions until 8:00AM Eastern tomorrow morning and then select a book by Friday? Then we have the weekend to get a copy and read a bit of it.

Does that sound cool to everyone?

tristanrobin · #46 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 03:46 PM

works for me

saltwn · #47 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by tristanrobin

The Kite Runner is a big hit right now - they even sell it in Starbucks

It's the book that was filmed - and caused all the problems for the family of the boy who stars in it, because there is a rape scene in it (the boy is raped). The family has received death threats because of allowing their son to be in the movie.

Thanks, I knew I'd heard the title somewhere. Sounds like a winner to me!

I'll probably read the one SC suggested whenever the library gets it, but this one
would be food for discussion (I think) from many angles.

cnredd · #48 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by AlicornsPrayer

I can't help but feel disappointed though Tristan. We PROMISED Redd that this forum wouldn't turn into this type of posting, which would entail moderating the forum to keep arguments from ballooning out of control.

You're going too far in your disappointment...

Here's what you wrote in the Feedback section...

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Originally Posted by AlicornsPrayer

What you may want to do is try it out temporarily. A test trial. And IF everyone thinks that it's having member interplay problems, THEN try out your suggestion of an in-group moderator setting.

In other words, start it with 100% openness and bring that percentage down as needed...And as we see, it just may be needed...

But no reason to fret about it...

The only thing you should REALLY fret about is capitalizing me name...NEVER!!!!...

saltwn · #49 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by KnightOfSappho

I still think that ANIMAL FARM might be an option

I read that when I was about 8 yrs old and I remember being a little confused. LOL Then when I was a teenager, I read it again and went, "Oh! This is is metaphor!" But I thought it was about the decadence that was the enlightenment. I later learned it was a satire on communist Russia who I knew little about at the time. Funny how a child's mind works.

saltwn · #50 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by tristanrobin

bhkad - you're taking this way too personally

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bkhad How outrageous that a POLITICAL online discussion forum book club should discuss the most urgent issue facing mankind BEFORE it tackles self-help issues.

What about a compromise? An adventure that is also a true story and gives insight into the history of our relationship with the middle east.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140130849X/ref=s9...
Here is an excerpt from The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 (you can get paper back for less than four dollars):

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Would to God that the officers and crew of the Philadelphia had one and all determined to prefer death to slavery ; it is possible such a determination might save them from either.
-Commodore Edward Preble to Secretary
of the Navy Robert Smith

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