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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (107487)	8/18/2005 12:48:36 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Well, I certainly don't want anyone to read something they find unpleasant. I agree with you that books are best chosen by the person who is going to read them. There is a book I really, really have wanted my husband to read for several years, and he just will not. Once in awhile someone very close to a person does have a good idea that a book will be cathartic or whatever, but I don't believe force feeding feels very good. So the book continues to miraculously float to the top of the huge stack on the coffee table! I have no idea how that happens. I am a very hopeful person. On the other hand, at the beginning of this conversation you had prejudged the book I suggested as not worthy of being used as fish wrap or whatever, and I don't think that is fair, either, to decide a book or its author are not worthy of consideration because they represent a point of view with which you don't agree. Particularly if it is a scholarly effort, I think books like that are often interesting. I certainly don't mind being persuaded by an argument, but I suspect you may be a little more resistant to that than I am. I would actually plow through Weintraub's book if you agreed to do the same with my author, for example. And if I agreed with his scholarship, I would be willing to change my opinion.