Books that Changed Our Lives discussion

Hi folks. I have a dear friend (yes in this case it is about someone else), who was abandoned by her father at an early age. She's in her late 20s now and dealing with a lot of the cumulated sadness and feelings of loss. Can anyone recommend books about that experience, fiction or non, that may help her as she deals with these difficult emotions? Thank you.

Hello Carlos, I just came across your question. I know it has been a while, but did you get an answer to your request. I would recommend my book "It Had to Happen". In one of my chapters I discuss the relationship between a father and daughter and the effects of both negative and positive.

Please click on this link for sample read of the book.

http://www.freado.com/read/10604/it-h...

Available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other bookstore outlets.

Thanks in advance.
Cyndy Patterson
Author, It Had to Happen

Orphans without fathers is a motif that goes all the way back to Homer's Odyssey. For something a bit newer, there's Hamlet (tragic) and Huck Finn (comic).

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Hello All,

I have some questions for the group.

First some background :

I read a mix of fiction and non-fiction, and average about 1 book a month. I am male 44 yrs old, live in India, and consider myself at a command level of English. I'm college educated and have fairly diverse interests ranging from Philosophy to Sociology, Economics and Political Science.

Now my question is this :

I read the popular book titled - "The Great Gatsby" about a year ago, and found some of the work quite rich and satisfying.

However, given that the book is set in the early 20th Century in America and makes a lot of cultural as well as social references to attitudes and outlooks at the time, how is a reader from the 21st Century [ and beyond ] meant to read it and derive a fuller understanding ?

So I chanced upon a "study guide" to the Great Gatsby, and realised that I had missed many thematic and symbolic motifs within the work.

That led me to evaluate my approach to all the classic works I had read for recreational purposes (NOT towards academic accomplishment.) And found that it is possible I may have had only a partial view / appreciation.

This question is turning out to be lengthy in its framing, but I'm getting there....

1) Do I read an accompanying "guide" with every piece of literature ?

2) If not Do i risk having an incomplete understanding ?

3) Should I read the guide post completing the main book, or read it alongside ?

4) If I undertake such an approach, it would seriously lengthen my reading time, and I would fall hopelessly behind on my list.. . .

Any thoughts and suggestions are welcome.