Monday, April 7, 2008
book club meeting #1, status: SUCCESS!!!
hey, derek here. just wanted to let you all know that, like donia wrote in the email, a few of us met yesterday to talk about The Road over some tasty foodies and great wine. it was a really great time and this was a good book to start out with (good call tim). i think that a once a month meeting (every first Sunday at one) is a great time to set. so mark you calenders and just plan on it. for you out-of-townees we want to try to make this blog a more frequently used thing so please feel free to get crazy on this thing.
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Thanks for hosting us, Derek (and Nate). Your hospitality was delightful.
My favorite paragraph is in the middle of the page on pg.28. And my favorite sentence from said paragraph, "The frailty of everything revealed at last." That is, for me one of the most important messages of the story.
I also found the idea that Donia touched on of, “the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and of death.” What an exhausting and hopeless thought that he would not even allow himself to dream of the good.
I loved, also, that somehow the idea of “good and bad” was still preserved in the perversity. A faintness of universal truth.
And I'm spent.
ok this is rad. i am really really excited about book club now!!!
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