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by Book Club Host
Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:54 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – Chapter One: effective or manipulative?
Replies: 10
Views: 47469

Re: Silent Spring – Chapter One: effective or manipulative?

Thanks for the thoughts, all. I'm enjoying reading them so keep them coming! Don, I thought of your comment last night when I was reading Chapter Three. Have you gotten to it yet? As far as Carson's writing goes, I think the manipulative aspect may have backfired on me as drama and overstatement ten...
by Book Club Host
Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:28 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – Favorite words
Replies: 3
Views: 21498

Re: Silent Spring – Favorite words

Are there any other word lovers out there? Please feel free to add to this thread. I'd love to hear what's striking you.
by Book Club Host
Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:24 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Words
Replies: 7
Views: 32832

Re: Words

What passage did you find most striking?
by Book Club Host
Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:29 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – Favorite words
Replies: 3
Views: 21498

Re: Silent Spring – Favorite words

In Chapter Two it's "sprays, dusts, and aerosols." The phrase has a softness to it. These are words we connect with cosmetics after all. But those sibilant "esses" lend a hint of the sinister. Brilliant.
by Book Club Host
Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:15 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – What's your edition?
Replies: 7
Views: 33886

Re: Silent Spring – What's your edition?

Welcome and thanks for sharing your edition!
by Book Club Host
Tue Jul 10, 2012 6:38 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring - Referenced in the Daily Camera
Replies: 0
Views: 14545

Silent Spring - Referenced in the Daily Camera

Did you see this article in the Daily Camera today? "Boulder finds first Batch of West Nile carrying mosquitoes in city this year" http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_21046720/boulder-finds-first-batch-west-nile-positive-mosquitoes The first comment: Move to an area not dominated by...
by Book Club Host
Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:31 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – Favorite words
Replies: 3
Views: 21498

Silent Spring – Favorite words

There are many. But looking at Chapter One alone I'd choose "vibernum" for the way it sounds and because I had to look it up. I'm enjoying Carson's way of describing an environment by listing its inhabitants.
by Book Club Host
Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:24 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Linda Lear's introduction to the 2002 edition
Replies: 0
Views: 14546

Linda Lear's introduction to the 2002 edition

Those of you reading the 2002 edition, did you read Linda Lear's intro? These two paragraphs ring familiar to me. It's hard to remember the cultural climate that greeted Silent Spring and to understand the fury launched against its quietly determined author. Carson's thesis that we were subjecting o...