Re: [TruthTalk] Fw: How to Read

[Debbie Sawczak]

Yes, that's the correct name. I've read two or three, can't remember. Yes, light but good; gently funny.   I don't know why they lopped off the first section for the US, and it is possible that in subsequent reprintings they stuck it back in, I don't know. It is not part of the actual story of the shipwreck and the survival with the tiger; it is his life before that, especially his exposure to various faiths through different friends, and lessons he learned from all of them as well as from his parents.   Debbie   ----- Original Message ----- From: ShieldsFamily To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 10:01 AM Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] Fw: How to Read I think it was actually the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.  Have you read more than just the first one?  I found reading it to be a bit like having an after dinner mint—non-filling, quick, and fun.  So what was so difficult that Americans are too dumb for in the first chapter of Life of Pi???  Was it published in Canada? If so, that explains a lot about the publisher’s opinion of Americans.  Perhaps I’ll look for American publishers in the future? Izzy   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debbie Sawczak Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 8:35 PM To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Fw: How to Read   I am a fan of the First Ladies Detective Agency too. I found Life of Pi highly readable and interesting, but ultimately disappointing. Raises an important philosophical issue but doesn't do so in a very satisfying way. Also, note that the edition published in the US was grossly dumbed down and altered by removal of the entire first section (or maybe it was just most of it?). They didn't think you guys could handle it, apparently, but it is (in my opinion) the best part.   The Kite Runner is on my list; I've heard good reviews from friends whose judgment I trust.   Debbie ----- Original Message ----- From: ShieldsFamily To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 9:45 PM Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] Fw: How to Read   Interesting, Lance, and thanks.  I just cannot stop reading a book word by word, cover to cover.  It’s my personal hang up I guess. It took me for-everrrrr to finish The Divine Conspiracy because I was trying to soak it all up.  I also MUST highlight my way through every book that is at all serious.  As a treat, on the drive down to Memphis, I devoured a cute little book my book club read a couple of years ago and I missed it.  “The First Ladies Detective Agency”.  Totally silly and funny.  You have to love a book whose heroine is a middle aged fat black African lady who decides to start a business as a detective.  I finished it and gave it to my DIL for some escape reading between changing diapers.    Last week I stopped at the bookstore to purchase a copy of “The Life of Pi”, as my book club is reviewing it next week. (I don’t read hardly any of the books they do—just go for the socializing and food!)  Everyone says it is wonderful and they could NOT put it down, etc., etc.  But I did as the article below recommends and took a minute to preview it in the bookstore.  By reading the cover plus perusing inside I was horrified to realize that the whole story involves a man and a handful of zoo animals adrift at sea after their ship goes down, and the animals EAT each other, one by one!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Leaving just the man and a tiger (or lion, or whatever it was), and he has to figure out how to keep from being EATEN!!!!!!!!!!!!  I DON’T THINK SO!  So I bought “The Kite Runner” instead.  Will let you know…. Izzy   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Deegan Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 6:29 AM To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Fw: How to Read   How to Read Less More, and Twice as Fast   SIMPLE, only read books will just pictures in them! Lance Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: