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Have you read the book entitled Agamemnon's Daughter? I am curious because I just finished watching the 1977 film Iphigenia, with Irene Pappas.

I think some of the effectiveness of the book (so far) is that the zeks are not living in misery and squalor. It's not a luxury hotel, but they have enough to eat, don't have to work outdoors in the cold, and no one is beating them. Ahhhh, but they don't have their freedom. Since day-to-day...

Well, I was born in Cincinnati (who knows where that is!) and I have voted and can vote and intend to vote again this time. McCain is as dangerous as George Bush in my opinion. It would be a third Bush term. I was originally a John Edwards supporter, but liked all the major candidates. (In...

My copy is a paperback with an English translation by Thomas P. Whitney, copyright 1968. Is anyone reading this in Russian? I am 50 pages in (through Chapter 9) and find I am in the hands of a story-teller with a firm touch. He sets the problem in the first chapter with a frustrated attempt...

I looked at your picture. My hill is older than your hill.

We need to set up a discussion thread for The First Circle. I'm just getting into it, and I would like to comment from time to time as I read.

I'm just safely back from Baden-Baden, where I spent the summer. I am about to join Robert in the prison camp.

The Happiness Hypothesis by Haidt. This book combines an account of recent studies of the mind, how it works, what makes us happy, etc., with the wisdom of the ages and sages: Buddha, Ecclesiastes, Machiavelli. Thought-provoking contrasts and a good read with minimal jargon.

I enjoyed White Teeth thoroughly. I didn't read it analytically, but just let it roll over me. On Beauty I thought was trying to do something, in other words, not just a "happening." Yet, I could not figure out what the something was and that distracted me from enjoying the book.

Logophilia, now, that is something some of us suffer from.

I don't know his new book, but I have enjoyed several of Cahill's works. The best for me was Sailing the Wine Dark Sea, about Greece. It is about the history and development of the ancient Greeks, with good chapters on the early science and on the art.

Many of the books recommended here would be on my list also, including Pearl Buck and the more recent White Swans and Memoir of a Geisha. Has anyone mentioned December 6 by Martin Cruz Smith. It is a thriller, a portrait of Japan just before the Pearl Harbor attack.

I would be afraid to read the book. I was married to one the first time around. If only he had been next door and not in my house!

I have just killed off Nana (with Zola's help) and escaped from the decadence of 1870's Paris. I plan to go to Baden Baden.

This was a book I didn't expect to like. I mean, who wants to read about a boy and a tiger drifting around in the Pacific Ocean! Neverthess, it was great, and it all tied together. The first part, including the family occupation, did move a little slowly, but was an important setup for the rest...

Somewhere there must exist a guide a correct pronunciation of Russian names. For example, I have heard both VLADimir and VlaDImir. In a recent book discussion we stumbled over ARKady versus ArKADy. Finally agreed on the latter with a broad a: ArKAHdi. Any Russian speakers out there?

Recycling Books If you buy books to read them, then move them on (recycling!), you might consider a book exchange. I have been using Bookmooch with good results. Be aware that it is not entirely "free" as you pay the postage on the books you send to others.

My checkbook. Why are we asking these questions?

I read it years ago. I have a copy and plan to start rereading it in a few days. I would hate to be all alone in the discussion

Iphigenia. A Greek movie (1977) which tells the story of the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter during the Trojan War. It stars Irene Pappas. Dramatic and, by the end, very moving. Everyone is caught in a situation of their own making, with no way out. I'm on a Greek kick just now.