Kristie
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"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Dec 26, 2006 19:38:05 GMT -5
anything you guys choose will be fine with me. i'll read it all at once and since it's so short, i'll finish it really soon. so just let me know. the halves of the parts sounds like a good idea because if we only talk every third of the book, it won't go in depth. if you see what i mean? we can talk more in depth if we pick smaller sections so we don't lump lots together...if that makes sense?
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Post by Isa on Dec 26, 2006 19:46:26 GMT -5
yep, makes sense, let's do it that way
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
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Post by Kristie on Dec 29, 2006 11:58:06 GMT -5
Okay, I don't know what editions you have with you all, but I have the small 50th Anniversary Edition. I was trying to look in it to separate the parts in half so we all stop at the same time and such. In the first part, my edition has a natural break in the story on p.32 (The first sentence after the break is: "The flutter of cards, motion of hands, of eyelids, the drone...") which is about halfway til the end of the first part. So I thought we could stop there since it's a natural break in the story.
Then in the second part I found a natural break at the bottom of p. 91 ("You could feel the war getting ready in the sky that night.") about halfway thru.
In the third part, p. 145 another natural break ("Half an hour later, cold, and moving carefully on the tracks..."
Let me know if this makes sense to you guys and if you think these are good enough stopping points within the three parts. (I was bored so I had time to do this.)
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Post by Isa on Dec 29, 2006 14:01:04 GMT -5
Thanks Kristie, we'll do just that!
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Jan 2, 2007 15:20:12 GMT -5
I'm going to post on the first 32 pages.
So far, I am really enjoying this book. In the first section we’re talking about, I see a world that Bradbury probably though would’ve come by 2006. And while he’s right in his thinking of a futuristic world, we’re not quite there yet. I admit, many people are finding more and more ways to have things done for them, rather than do them themselves. I see there’s a fast-paced life so far in the novel, and it’s a good thing Montag found/met Clarisse because he needed someone to basically tell him to “Stop and smell the roses.” I find it very interesting that when Clarisse talks about what her uncle said, those things I can see diminishing. The fighting is becoming more violent and more and more technology is helping people get around actually performing tasks. Clarisse said she likes to clean the house by hand, where now people are beginning to hire people or buy those little round robotic vacuum cleaners because they can’t take the time or energy to push a 10 pound vacuum cleaner themselves.
I think it’s very interesting that in the novel, firemen are men who start fires. I don’t quite understand how one can make everything fireproof so there’s no need for them to be there to put out fires. I also wonder, is this supposed to be in the US? I assume it is, but I keep having visions of Germany and the Nazis burning Bibles. Perhaps that’s because of Montag’s name (being German for Monday) and at the beginning during the fire, it “burned the evening sky red and yellow and black.” (p.1) which are the three colors on the German flag. Anyways, if this is in the US, what happened to the freedom of press law? I mean, as far as censorship goes, the US is pretty lenient in many cases. Why these three authors? I mean, Millay was bisexual and Whitman was homosexual and I don’t really know what could be considered wrong with Faulkner because I don’t know much about him, but I can think of other authors now who could be “controversial.” Just wondered if there was any particular reason those three may have been targeted…
By the way, I really like Clarisse and how she tries to keep the moral and feeling human alive.
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Post by Isa on Jan 2, 2007 16:26:37 GMT -5
I think I'll start a new thread for it - don't worry, I'll copy-paste what you've written!
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Jan 2, 2007 16:33:12 GMT -5
okay sounds fine
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