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Topic: Idle Tittle-Tattle about Madame Bovary Inside

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Subject: Idle Tittle-Tattle about Madame Bovary Inside
Date Posted: 1/2/2011 11:33 AM ET
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Any thoughts so far?   more...
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Date Posted: 1/2/2011 12:41 PM ET
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Even more...
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Date Posted: 1/2/2011 12:49 PM ET
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I'm at chapter IV and I am liki more...
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Date Posted: 1/2/2011 12:56 PM ET
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I n more...
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Date Posted: 1/2/2011 3:54 PM ET
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I am halfway chapter 6 and I think the marriage was a business transaction for her more...
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Date Posted: 1/2/2011 6:19 PM ET
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It won't take more...
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I've only completed part one, but I'm liking this one so far. I've never read more...
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Date Posted: 1/2/2011 10:48 PM ET
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After chapter 7 I feel like I get a little of wher more...
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Date Posted: 1/3/2011 7:52 PM ET
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All I can sa more...
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Date Posted: 1/3/2011 8:10 PM ET
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Date Posted: 1/3/2011 10:44 PM ET
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I read chapter e more...
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Date Posted: 1/4/2011 11:09 AM ET
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Shanan - I liked that line as well.  I found it to be very profound and explain her expectations do not li more...
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Date Posted: 1/4/2011 11:20 AM ET
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But I think Charles is also boun more...
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Date Posted: 1/4/2011 1:22 PM ET
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Flaubert's writing.     Earlier I posted that I had only read the first chapter and that I hadn't found any exceptional writing.  What I mean by that is whe more...
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Date Posted: 1/4/2011 1:26 PM ET
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 it doesn't seem to take he more...
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Date Posted: 1/4/2011 1:28 PM ET
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I agree with you Shanan in that Charles did not gr more...
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Date Posted: 1/4/2011 9:24 PM ET
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TomeTrader--I a more...
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I agree that their relationship is as unhealthy as his more...
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Oh, all right, some of 'Emma's problem' is her own character weakness.........but the girl gets some sympathy from me because of how she was sent off to a convent for 'female more...
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Date Posted: 1/5/2011 2:26 PM ET
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I didn't get to read any  last night and can truly say I missed Emma. I was more...
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Finished part one. I have to say I more...
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Subject: Information of Flaubert that explains his descriptive talent
Date Posted: 1/6/2011 6:39 PM ET
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From Sparknotes: Flaubert is often conside more...
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and some more interesting bio on Flaubert's writing. I am ignoring the more salacious more...
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Date Posted: 1/6/2011 6:53 PM ET
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I am with you more...
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Subject: re Flaubert's references
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About that reference to Paul and Virginia in Chapter VI: " Paul is the illegimate ch more...
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