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[cleolinda]

Quick clarification on the Virginia story: I read the whole spiel at Daily Kos, and apparently what they're trying to do is target women who abandon babies in dumpsters. The problem is that the PROPOSED LAW does not target them. It's like saying that if anyone, anywhere, dies for any reason (heart attack? well-documented terminal illness? old age?), it's got to be reported to the homicide squad. If they want to target baby-dumping, they need to DO THAT, rather than force every single woman who ever miscarries at any stage of gestation, anywhere, to account for herself. You know, with words like "abandoning" and "receptacles not intended for babies, such as dumpsters, or the occasional birdbath."

Also, I just got back from class, and the professor raffled off her "desk copies" of our texts by having us choose a number between 1 and 100. Guess who won a brand new copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin? WHEE.

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[girlalmighty]

Oh my god. I have American Lit: 1845 to the Present next semester. The little list of authors in the course description didn't say anything about Stowe, but it's such a classic they'll probably thrust it on us anyhow. I really hope not, though. o_0 I've escaped reading it so far, and I hope to keep on Not Reading It.

Maybe you can just write the cleolinda-version of SparkNotes for Uncle Tom's Cabin and save some of the rest of us the trouble. ;) Though I imagine that by now you're like "If I have to read this AGAIN, they can read it too."

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm actually kind of leery of doing something like that, because in my head the parody involves a lot of Jar-Jar style "Weesa gonna die! Weesa gonna be sold!," just because I HATED the dialect overkill. Except that, if you haven't read it... that's not going to come off very well. The things about the book that I'd want to parody are still kind of sensitive.

[girlalmighty]

Ugh, dialect. It gets so tiresome. I was pretty much joking anyway. It would be nice, but I'd imagine you're way too busy to be helping me with my homework anyhow, dear.

Right now my knowledge of the book consists of a scrap of lyric from Stephen Sondheim ("so why watch me die like Eliza on the ice?"), my APUSH teacher's urging us to read it, and the King & I version ("The little house of Uncle Thomas"). Hopefully I just won't need to find out more.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It would be nice, but I'd imagine you're way too busy to be helping me with my homework anyhow, dear.

Hee. Well, I mean, I did like a one-paragraph bit on Samson Agonistes. That kind of thing wouldn't have been out of the question. Except for the jarjarative qualities.

[girlalmighty]

I promise not to report you to the NAACP. ;) Anyway, I don't yet know what we're required to read from that class aside from Steinbeck and Dickinson and Twain. I like Twain well enough and I love Emily Dickinson, and I suppose I may as well give Steinbeck a chance. It's the Faulkner I'm not looking forward to. We read The Sound and the Fury for AP English senior year. Oh. My. Goodness. I liked the characters; I wanted to know what happened to the characters; I had no idea what was going on period. Stream-of-consciousness is all well and good, but . . . that hurt my brain.

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

Ok- Steinbeck has a great deal of love in my heart; The first "adult" books I was assigned in the 6th grade were the Red Pony and The Pearl-I highly reccomend them BOTH. Also enjoyed Of Mice and Men it is the only work that I've ever seen make my father cry, but I loathe The Grapes of Wrath for the sheer fact that it is so verbose.

Also read The Sound and the Fury for AP-had the same feelings. I consider myself well read, but I JUST NOW started reading Catch-22 for the first time and I swear I have never taken this long to read a book... 6 days thus far and I'm only half way through. The craziness-she hurts my brain.

[elbales]

Ever tried The Light and the Dark? I was so lost. :P (Or--even better--Sons and Lovers!)

I don't remember a damned thing about either book.