Add This To My List Of Books Not To Read....

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Ladies, in learning how to read you are doing yourself a great disservice, giving up your power and denying your true femininity.

From The Alphabet Versus The Goddess by Leonard Shlain, page 152

"Illiterate women were at an obvious disadvantage in dealing with literate men. Those few women who did become literate surrendered a considerable portion of what power they had because they were now using a method of perception that reinforced their masculine side at the expense of their feminine. And instead of becoming more aggressive, they became more disoriented, cut off from the true roots of their strength, and they deferred to the male element in the society."


I read two chapters rom the middle of the book...it was fairly painful stuff. Lenny also doesn't get his mythology straight- he includes the Muses as followers of Dionysus??? (Okay, if someone has seen this in mythology anywhere please enlighten me, but a brief googling of Dionysus and the Muses only returns pages that happen to have both Apollo/the Muses on the same page with Dionysus.

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[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

I hated that book. I read it because I like to see what's out there, but it is so far fetched.

You asked me what the 50 Book Challenge is. It's a challenge to read 50 (or 25, or 100....) books a year and post in your journal a short review of the book. There's even a LJ community where people can post their reviews. It's just a personal goal for me to complete 50 books of different genres over the year 2006. I have very little free time, so this is a good impetus to read as much as possible.