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... I read a Romance novel, I can’t even remember the name of it.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read? Emile, by Jean-Jacque Rousseau, because I had to pull psychological theory from his ramblings.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen? As You Like ... ... the Nation
Enjoyed the echos of eighteenth-century educational experiments though I suspect Anderson's read Rousseau's Emile but not Edgeworth's Belinda.
5. Shena MacKay's Heligoland
I hadn't read any MacKay before but I enjoyed this novel which satirizes domestic experiments and ... ... to Rousseau, the best moral choices are those a human would choose according to his nature and not his training (see Emile) whereas Kant takes the opposite view in Religion and the Boundaries of Mere Reason. (I haven't read the latter work. If you can read Kant, whew you are smart.) OK, I've read Emile. A bit sexist? What, you don't think women are naturally subordinated to men?
Well, how about as an antidote we go back to a book about a very wise woman, namely 1001 Nights? ... straighten this chain out, why don't we take Philosojerk's entry as the next one in the chain, and so now we're looking for Emile. (Which, unfortunately, I have not read yet.) Uh, I put in Emile as the book I was adding to the chain, since I'd read Catch-22.
Okay, now I'm really confused about what's going on here. I see why we're looking for Cold Comfort Farm, but where did Emile come from? Do we need to start over again? ... a bit confuzzled at this point!
Maybe the person below me will have read both Cold Comfort Farm and Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (a book which, while I've read it, I have absolutely no clue why it would be on the 1001 list - it's both awful to read, and one ... ... don't understand his nonsense any more now than I did when I read it several months ago. And don't even get me started on Emile.
OK, right, I'm done. I have a copy of Emile by Jean-Jaques Rousseau that I use for my senior thesis and presentation for my BA in Psych (he had some truly revolutionary views on children for a jerk). I have not read the thing since graduation in 2000, but it is the book I'd save in a fire. It's not worth ... ... frustrations. But surely it is doubly frustrating for me because I actually own the works he has recombined! (Apart from Emile, it appears that philosojerk doesn't actually own the other works at issue - Les Confessions and Julie, ou, La nouvelle Héloïse.)
So Osbaldistone at 3 was ...
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