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Leo & Karishma - Lord of Light

I guess I'll start around the 10th ;)

ok, let's start after the Penelopiad :)

I will start the book this weekend or next Monday :) if you want to start already, fine with me, just mark your spoilers

I'll start tomorrow

I'm about 20 pages in. I kind of enjoy the world building, but the flowery language is kind of strange. I understand the concept of it, but I don't really feel that it boosts the impact of the content.
What do you think about the language? Does it throw you of?

I think only until chapter 2, I have a lot of cleaning to do today :) We get a guest from Hong Kong tomorrow.

I have to finish Flowers for Algernon this month, because it is due at the library on 31 May. But The Lost Books of the Odyssey and Deathless are still on my list for next month :) should I put them in the discussion thread, in case we find someone else who wants to join?

Oh, that's ok :) I wanted to start Flowers for Algernon next Friday. How about we just use this thread to discuss it?

the 27th :) I actually put Lord of Light on hold for the moment, but I'll read on tomorrow after I finished Station Eleven

I read until the end of Progress Report 10

(view spoiler)[It is so horrible, what people put Charlie through, only because they could get away with it! And now he is still an outsider, because he is becoming smarter than anyone else.
What do you think about the nurse, who said it was not right to change his brain. Do you think it would have been better if he stayed the way he was? (hide spoiler)]

Progress Report 11

(view spoiler)[Charlie is really dealing with serious trauma. I'm curious if we will actually meet the family soon, and what will happen then. The religious theme of the tree of knowledge is brought up again. How will this play out, I wonder? (hide spoiler)]

Progress Report 12/13

(view spoiler)[I understand that Charlie is upset that Nemur is treating him as if he wasn't a human being before the operation. Most people treated him as if he had no feelings only because he didn't understand everything.
But he is still very insenstive to his surroundings. He is a genius, true, but socially immature. (hide spoiler)]

Yes, it is really sad. I think, it is more about how we as a society treat mentally disabled people, than about the operation itself.

I finished today. What did you think about the ending?

Don't rush yourself on my behalf :) I thought the book made some good points on society and the importance we put on intelligence

That was a pretty funny seen, in my opinion ;)
But he is really becoming quite arrogant at that point

I finished Lord of the Light and liked it a lot in the end. Of course it is not perfect, and there are sexist stereotypes, but I could tolerate those, as the book was written in the seventies. I thought it was a pretty funny book