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  • 21-08-2014 12:27pm
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    MrJones1973
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    Have to decide. I would rather be disemboweled than do How many miles again. Im torn between The Great Gatsby and Home before dark?
    Weak group-most would do well to get a C


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    sitstill
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    Mrwhite1970 wrote: »
    Have to decide. I would rather be disemboweled than do How many miles again. Im torn between The Great Gatsby and Home before dark?
    Weak group-most would do well to get a C

    I tried to do The Great Gatsby with a weak group before and it actually almost killed me. They didn't get it at all and I ended up abandoning it and doing Sive instead that year.

    Of those choices, I'd do Babylon. It's straight-forward and weak groups tend to like it.


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    implausible
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    I've done Gatsby twice with HL groups and while the first chapter can be torture to get through, they usually get into it after that - the mystery, adultery and parties usually gets them. Baz Luhrman's film is close enough to it too. I don't know, there'd be a lot of hand-holding covering it with an OL group.

    Would you go for Juno? Depressing and all though it is, if they have a crash course in Irish history, the boozing, betrayal and an unplanned pregnancy should be enough to keep them interested.


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    MrJones1973
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    sitstill wrote: »
    I tried to do The Great Gatsby with a weak group before and it actually almost killed me. They didn't get it at all and I ended up abandoning it and doing Sive instead that year.

    Of those choices, I'd do Babylon. It's straight-forward and weak groups tend to like it.



    Have done Babylon too many times-I find it terribly boring and never had a group who liked it. Why its perpetually on I dont know. Though-books are a personal thing.


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    MrJones1973
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    Circle of friends? Why o why do we have nothing modern?? ie post 1950??


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