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Subject: "Challenging" Reads
Date Posted: 6/9/2014 10:27 AM ET
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Date Posted: 6/9/2014 2:50 PM ET
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In my opinion Finnegan's Wake is unreadable. I have also given myself permission to avoid Ulysses af more...
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Date Posted: 6/10/2014 11:19 AM ET
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The one to try first is Moby Dick - but skim the chapters dev more...
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Date Posted: 6/11/2014 2:40 PM ET
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Anita K. dear, sweet, normal, wholesome, warm, intelligent, book-reading An more...
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Date Posted: 6/11/2014 6:18 PM ET
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For the most part I agree with Bonnie, as I've either read or attempted more...
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Date Posted: 6/12/2014 12:23 AM ET
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The only book on that lis more...
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Date Posted: 6/12/2014 11:03 AM ET
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Bonnie,  I am more...
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Date Posted: 6/14/2014 4:17 PM ET
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I am more...
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Date Posted: 6/15/2014 11:33 PM ET
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I've read two of them: more...
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Date Posted: 6/16/2014 8:45 AM ET
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I belong to an organization called OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) that provides classes, trips, and lectures for thos more...
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Date Posted: 6/16/2014 10:13 AM ET
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I belong to an OLLI group, more...
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Anita:  Now that approach might make some difference----but I still think that an more...
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Date Posted: 6/16/2014 1:44 PM ET
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P. S.  more...
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Date Posted: 6/16/2014 4:19 PM ET
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Anita, I'm on my OLLI group's advisory board and we've been taking a look at diff more...
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Date Posted: 6/22/2014 10:51 AM ET
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Well, I decided to try No. 1 more...
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Date Posted: 7/2/2014 5:08 AM ET
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I wanted to note that I'm teaching an OLLI class this summer ("Four Unique Authors"), and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice a more...
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Date Posted: 7/2/2014 1:01 PM ET
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Rose:  Are you saying more...
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Date Posted: 7/3/2014 10:04 AM ET
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Well, I decided to try No. 1 on the list--"Finnegan's more...
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Date Posted: 7/3/2014 4:05 PM ET
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Charles K. , Your post made me think about how some authors are so very 'provincial' in their stories and no more...
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Date Posted: 7/3/2014 4:22 PM ET
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From what I can tell Joyce was a thoroughly unpleas more...
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Date Posted: 7/8/2014 7:54 AM ET
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RE Obsessed's "much more readable than one migh more...
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Date Posted: 7/8/2014 8:27 AM ET
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speaking of Russ more...
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Date Posted: 7/8/2014 10:55 AM ET
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Yes, Mikhail Bul more...
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Date Posted: 7/8/2014 11:15 AM ET
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I hav more...
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Date Posted: 7/8/2014 5:37 PM ET
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Nope. It is part o more...
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