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- Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:54 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Silent Spring – Chapter One: effective or manipulative?
- Replies: 10
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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...
- Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:28 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Silent Spring – Favorite words
- Replies: 3
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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.
Re: Words
What passage did you find most striking?
- Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:29 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Silent Spring – Favorite words
- Replies: 3
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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.
- Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:15 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Silent Spring – What's your edition?
- Replies: 7
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Re: Silent Spring – What's your edition?
Welcome and thanks for sharing your edition!
- Tue Jul 10, 2012 6:38 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Silent Spring - Referenced in the Daily Camera
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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...
- Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:32 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Silent Spring – Chapter One: effective or manipulative?
- Replies: 10
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Silent Spring – Chapter One: effective or manipulative?
What do you think?
- Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:31 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Silent Spring – Favorite words
- Replies: 3
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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.
- Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:24 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Linda Lear's introduction to the 2002 edition
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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...
- Mon Jul 09, 2012 6:53 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Silent Spring – Book Club starts here on July 9th!
- Replies: 12
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