AMeador is currently reading The Federalist Papers.
I’ve been a DailyLit member since February 22, 2009.
Books
- The Federalist Papers 84% complete
- The Art of War finished
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin finished
- The Man Who Would Be King finished
- The Crab that Played with the Sea finished
- Paranoia finished
- Wuthering Heights finished
- Hell-Heaven finished
- The Red Badge of Courage finished
- The Virginian, Horseman of the Plains finished
- The Beast in the Jungle finished
- The Last of the Mohicans finished
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Madame Bovary finished
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The Jungle finished
Posts
Madame Bovary - Madame Bovary
I didn't care for it very much but I like to finish what I start. It did give a picture of what life was like in that era though I don't think Madame Bovary was a typical woman. She was very selfish and immoral. She did not appreciate what she had and he was a dupe.
The Jungle - The Jungle
The book showed the harsh realities of the packinghouses in Chicago and the development of industrialization. I thought the book was interesting until the last few chapters which was a very long account of capitalism vs. socialism. I understood that the author needed to present his point of view but was rather difficult to stick with. Each paragraph could have been analyzed with how things were then and actually how they are today since it seems that the trend now seems to be toward socialism. Absolutely the discussion between capitalism and socialism is relavent today.
