Dee’s Comments (group member since Oct 23, 2015)

Dee’s comments from the ALWAYS READING BOOK CLUB group.

From the moment I started reading the book, I figured that Lena would leave society, especially since she kept having nightmares about her mother's suicide. I think that the concept of liking a boy is so new to her, that she is mostly with Alex to experience the range of emotions that she would have lost having the procedure. It also seemed as if Alex was in the room specifically, since he later admits that he had watched her before. I imagine living in this society, that I would try to do anything to escape. Living without emotions would be terrible. I think of it as the point of life...to feel things and analyze experiences. This might as well have been a book about zombies because once the procedure was completed, that was essentially what the adults became. I honestly could not finish this book. I made it part way through and just got bored of the whole situation. I hope that others were more successful than I in completing the story.

So, I think that having love be a disease in a book is extremely irrational. It is a basic emotion that fuels the spirit of imagination and physical desire. I found it hard to believe that any of the people in the book could feel anything once the procedure was done....they were basically lobotomizing people. If you take out the core of a person's emotions, then they should feel nothing...so in retrospect to the marrying someone you barely know... it wouldn't matter because you couldn't feel anything anyway. It is mostly just pairing people off to procreate. A person would become an unfeeling baby creator. No wonder everyone was committing suicide and running away. It was an unrealistic concept and made me feel contempt toward almost all the people in the book.

I'm going to say horse and rainstorm.
WYR mow the lawn or bake cookies?

Walk

WYR sit outside on a freezing day with only a t-shirt on or sit outside wearing a sweatshirt on an extremely hot day?

Hello! My name is Dee. I love to read books and was looking for a club to help me expand my horizons. I just finished reading Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George. I am excited to be joining a small group in order to have great discussions!