Depending on when the book was written, the missionaries might have been a bit jerkish. The kind of cultural training they get now is a lot more in-depth than that of previous centuries. Unfortunately many modern authors make no effort to update their profiles of missionaries and so miss this completely. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elfqueen" <elfqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:59 AM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: My turn for recommendations
I had to read this book called "Things Fall Apart." (If anyone has read it and liked it, no offense meant at all.) It was interesting to learn about the African tribal culture, and I did eventually get interested in the characters, but I hated that book with a passion. The main character was a big jerk, the culture was messed up completely (they thought twins, innocent little baby twins, were evil, so they'd put them in clay jars and leave them to die in the forest--that just made me sick to my stomach), and the main character hangs himself at the end of the story, for crying out loud! Also, I was a little hurt at the treatment of missionaries in the book, though I could understand the main character's reasons for hating them. He might have left them alone to help those who wanted to be helped, though, not just in a spiritual sense but physically. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shannon" <shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:44 AM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: My turn for recommendationsOh good grief, I remember World Lit from my senior year in high school. The positive was that I got to read Cyrano de Bergerac, which I loved... but we also had to read Madamme Bovary and Crime and Punishment, which I, well, did not.I shudder to imagine what that sort of class is like on the colegiate level. Ugh.ShannonWho handles most things electronically if she possibly can for her college classes. It's just so much easier.At 11:50 PM 6/15/2008, Elfqueen wrote:Dude, I *hated* world lit! Hated it! I had a good teacher and everything (unlike this year with American lit, my teacher shouldn't have had her job), and I still hated it. But then, the school I was attending was new to me at the time, and I didn't want to be there and I was upset at that and above all very intimidated, so I hated lots of stuff I wouldn't ordinarily. I could have handled this year's beastiness if it hadn't been a dull, grinding beast. I'm excited for college.And to the Braille paper statement, I can only say: YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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