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birddog
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need help on BOOK, "the joy luck club"
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May 31 01:01 UTC 1996 |
Help! Ever read the book "The joy luck club?" I need Help on some of the
chapters! HELP if you can
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meg
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response 1 of 32:
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May 31 07:58 UTC 1996 |
What kind of help?
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mvk
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response 2 of 32:
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Jun 1 18:29 UTC 1996 |
quit
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mooncat
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response 3 of 32:
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Jun 1 21:18 UTC 1996 |
Someone have a book report due? <grin>
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popcorn
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response 4 of 32:
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Jun 2 04:02 UTC 1996 |
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n8rxs
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response 5 of 32:
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Jun 2 19:41 UTC 1996 |
I read the book and thought it was great. I also read The Kitchen Gods wife
because I liked TJLC so much.
I also know that Amy Tan sang in this rock band organized by Stephen King in
black fishnet stockings and black shorts and sounded really bad. Read her
books, don't hire her for your barmitzvah.
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popcorn
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response 6 of 32:
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Jun 2 19:56 UTC 1996 |
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beeswing
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response 7 of 32:
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Jun 2 19:56 UTC 1996 |
Yeah.. I think Dave Barry was in int also... and yes they did suck. How King
could organize such a monstrosity is beyond me. They sucked BAD>
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beeswing
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response 8 of 32:
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Jun 2 19:56 UTC 1996 |
d'oh someone slipped in
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omni
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response 9 of 32:
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Jun 3 02:51 UTC 1996 |
At least King doesn't write as bad as he plays the guitar. ;)
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rcurl
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response 10 of 32:
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Jun 3 04:04 UTC 1996 |
Would someone please give synopses of tjlc and tkg?
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tsty
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response 11 of 32:
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Jun 4 07:14 UTC 1996 |
story of four Chinese mothers and their experiences raising children.
<that's a mighty short synopsis and inherently incomplete>
read the book, wanted to see the flick (haven't). it's an amazingly
subtle adn sensitive story. the flow risks putting the reader to sleep
but it's an excellent read nonetheless. i can recommend TJLC for more
than just PC 'sensitivity training.'
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fitz
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Jun 4 10:28 UTC 1996 |
Yes. I would not say that the flow of the stories tended to put me to
sleep, however, I do think that *The Joy Luck Club* exemplifies a
stylistic notion that has already become prevelant in much of the
recently published fiction that I have been reading. More than just a
few writers nowadays put forth novels that resemble a collection of short
stories. In *TJLC*, the stories connect with one another because the
individual narrations must be separately told by the individuals at the
gaming table. As in life, the only common thread in the stories seems to
be that each story reveals an ordeal for each narrator to overcome (not
always with success). The formal structure of the weekly maj jong game
brings these very different stories into the same room. The pretense for
assembling these verydifferent stories could have just as well have
been set at a bridge table, a bowling league game or the break room of a
factory.
Ms. Tan writes exceedingly well. I would like to point out the first
story told by "The Chess Player" as a concise, well-written short story
initself, worthy of consideration along with the works of H. H. Munro.
It is a jewel of literature, and that should be evident to all who take the
time to read it--if nothing else in the book. (Was it chapter 3? I
don't have a copy in front of me and I read it long ago.)
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remmers
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response 13 of 32:
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Jun 4 14:13 UTC 1996 |
(Response #12 sounds like excellent book report material... :)
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davel
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response 14 of 32:
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Jun 4 14:26 UTC 1996 |
Um, Rane or Jim, this one seems like a natural to link to books cf.
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janc
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response 15 of 32:
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Jun 4 15:02 UTC 1996 |
A collection of short stories tied together by a frame story is hardly a new
stylistic notion. It's quite a bit older than the notion of the novel.
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omni
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response 16 of 32:
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Jun 4 18:49 UTC 1996 |
maybe. ;)
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remmers
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response 17 of 32:
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Jun 4 21:14 UTC 1996 |
Re #15: "Arabian Nights" pops to mind.
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rcurl
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response 18 of 32:
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Jun 5 02:46 UTC 1996 |
I have linked spring agora 93 to books 51.
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fitz
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response 19 of 32:
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Jun 5 14:05 UTC 1996 |
The Canterbury Tales, I suppose for the earliest. I do, however,
persist in the notion that my selections have resulted in a number of
novels that are structurally resemble short stories more than they
resemble novels of Dickens or Austin.
Well, it might just be the selection, but I'm not consciously looking
for novels that are structured like *The Joy Luck Club*.
Getting back to the topic: I also saw the movie and I thought that it
did a slightly better job dramatizing the story of the woman who
abandoned her child. But read the book! Tan is an excellent word-smith.
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janc
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response 20 of 32:
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Jun 5 17:01 UTC 1996 |
I agree that the form has enjoyed something of a revival. John Barth has a
lot of fun in with it in several of his stories, including spiralling frame
tales. I think Chaucer and the Arabian Nights are both 14th century. Dunno
where the form originated.
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ajax
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response 21 of 32:
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Jun 5 19:07 UTC 1996 |
Would you count the Love Boat and Fantasy Island among this form of story?
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janc
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response 22 of 32:
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Jun 5 20:21 UTC 1996 |
Borderline. There is a frame setting and a frame cast, but not much of a
frame story.
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rcurl
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response 23 of 32:
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Jun 5 21:15 UTC 1996 |
Sherlock Holmes.....
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scott
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response 24 of 32:
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Jun 5 21:44 UTC 1996 |
Homer?
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