Shouts & Murmurs: Book Club: Humor: The New Yorker

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Arllennium on 2009-06-23 - Tags discussion , questions , literaturecircles , bookclub , newyorker

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4. Book-club members who have actually read this book have called its plot “depressing,” “disgusting,” and “too much about poor people.” Does this suggest that you, as a reader, have a moral obligation to say that you liked the book?

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5. Early in the prologue, we learn that lab animals will be mistreated as the story progresses. In literature, why is it so much sadder when an animal dies than when a person does? Why does God choose us to read horrible things like this?