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FROM: "Joan Cales" <jcales@wpl.org>
REC'D: 4/24/02, 4:49 PM

We are excited to be hosting the "Frankenstein" exhibit and would like to
have offer a book discussion series that includes Mary Shelley's
"Frankenstein". I am seeking books that explore what it is to be human, our
connections and responsibilities to other living beings, particularily those
more vulnerable than ourselves - the nature of power and consequences of
misuse.
Any ideas would be appreciated. I would be happy to compile and post a
list.

Thanks,
Joan Cales
Special Services Librarian
Winfield Public Library http://www.wpl.org
605 College 316-221-4470
Winfield, KS. 67156 Fax#316-221-6135

FROM: Roger Carswell <rogercarswell@alltel.net>
REC'D: 4/24/02, 5:10 PM

The Bicentennial Man, by Isaac Asimov


At 04:42 PM 4/24/02 -0500, you wrote:
>
>We are excited to be hosting the "Frankenstein" exhibit and would like to
>have offer a book discussion series that includes Mary Shelley's
>"Frankenstein". I am seeking books that explore what it is to be human, our
>connections and responsibilities to other living beings, particularily those
>more vulnerable than ourselves - the nature of power and consequences of
>misuse.
> Any ideas would be appreciated. I would be happy to compile and post a
>list.
>
>Thanks,
>Joan Cales
>Special Services Librarian
>Winfield Public Library http://www.wpl.org
>605 College 316-221-4470
>Winfield, KS. 67156 Fax#316-221-6135
>
>
>
>
>......................................................................
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Iola, KS 66749
(620) 365-5136
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FROM: Aaron Smith <smithaa@oplin.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 4/25/02, 8:02 AM

Joan -

I have been absolutely blown away by a recent reading of Mary Doria
Russell's _Children of God_, concerning very human vices and virtues as
they wrestle with racial conflict in another civilization. I have not yet
read her related _Sparrow_, but stylistically and structurally the former
is a masterwork.

Good luck keeping the high-minded focus in the forefront ...

Aaron
Clermont County Public Library, Ohio

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Joan Cales wrote:

>
> We are excited to be hosting the "Frankenstein" exhibit and would like to
> have offer a book discussion series that includes Mary Shelley's
> "Frankenstein". I am seeking books that explore what it is to be human, our
> connections and responsibilities to other living beings, particularily those
> more vulnerable than ourselves - the nature of power and consequences of
> misuse.

FROM: "Karen A.K. Keller" <kkeller@brighton.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 4/25/02, 8:33 AM

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Joan Cales wrote:

> I am seeking books that explore what it is to be human, our connections
> and responsibilities to other living beings, particularily those more
> vulnerable than ourselves - the nature of power and consequences of
> misuse.
>
"Crazy Love" by David Lozell Martin.


Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: "Community Relations Department" <comrel@mail.sgcl.org>
REC'D: 4/25/02, 9:04 AM

The book "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn challenges the reader to question what it
means to be human: who we are and how we got this way. It is told in a
series of Socratic dialogs between teacher and pupil. Ishmael, a large male
gorilla, is the teacher and the narrator, a human disillusioned with man's
inability to change the world, is the pupil. Our connections and
responsibilities to all other life on the planet, is central to the story.

This book has caused lots of controversy. It has been praised as a work of
philosophy while it has been criticized as a work of literature. Whichever
way you think, it will challenge your notions of what it means to be human.

Nancy McShane
Community Relations Department
Springfield-Greene County Library
Springfield, MO comrel@mail.sgcl.org
http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Smith" <smithaa@oplin.lib.oh.us>
To: "Fiction_L" <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: Frankenstein


> Joan -
>
> I have been absolutely blown away by a recent reading of Mary Doria
> Russell's _Children of God_, concerning very human vices and virtues as
> they wrestle with racial conflict in another civilization. I have not yet
> read her related _Sparrow_, but stylistically and structurally the former
> is a masterwork.
>
> Good luck keeping the high-minded focus in the forefront ...
>
> Aaron
> Clermont County Public Library, Ohio
>
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Joan Cales wrote:
>
> >
> > We are excited to be hosting the "Frankenstein" exhibit and would like
to
> > have offer a book discussion series that includes Mary Shelley's
> > "Frankenstein". I am seeking books that explore what it is to be human,
our
> > connections and responsibilities to other living beings, particularily
those
> > more vulnerable than ourselves - the nature of power and consequences of
> > misuse.
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "Jeanne Etling" <jetling@nsls.info>
REC'D: 4/25/02, 9:46 AM

Joan,

You might want to try Joshua, Son of None by Nancy Freedman. The plot is
that a staffmember at the hospital where Kennedy is taken after he was shot
takes cells from Kennedy's body and clones him.

Jeanne Etling
Dundee (IL) Township Public Library District

----- Original Message -----
> I am seeking books that explore what it is to be human, our
> connections and responsibilities to other living beings, particularily
those
> more vulnerable than ourselves - the nature of power and consequences of
> misuse.

FROM: Kathleen Stipek <kstipek@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 4/25/02, 9:56 AM

A.E. van Vogt's Slan and Zenna Henderson's books about The People address
what it means to be human and what being human means.

........................................................................
.....................
Kathleen Stipek, Adult Services/Interlibrary Loans, Alachua County
Library District (FMG), 401 E. University AV, Gainesville FL 32601
(kstipek@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us)
352-334-3938 (v) 352-334-3948 (f)

"Non, merci."--Cyrano de Bergerac


-----Original Message-----
From: Community Relations Department [mailto:comrel@mail.sgcl.org]
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:10 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Frankenstein


The book "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn challenges the reader to question what it
means to be human: who we are and how we got this way. It is told in a
series of Socratic dialogs between teacher and pupil. Ishmael, a large male
gorilla, is the teacher and the narrator, a human disillusioned with man's
inability to change the world, is the pupil. Our connections and
responsibilities to all other life on the planet, is central to the story.

This book has caused lots of controversy. It has been praised as a work of
philosophy while it has been criticized as a work of literature. Whichever
way you think, it will challenge your notions of what it means to be human.

Nancy McShane
Community Relations Department
Springfield-Greene County Library
Springfield, MO comrel@mail.sgcl.org
http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Smith" <smithaa@oplin.lib.oh.us>
To: "Fiction_L" <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: Frankenstein


> Joan -
>
> I have been absolutely blown away by a recent reading of Mary Doria
> Russell's _Children of God_, concerning very human vices and virtues as
> they wrestle with racial conflict in another civilization. I have not yet
> read her related _Sparrow_, but stylistically and structurally the former
> is a masterwork.
>
> Good luck keeping the high-minded focus in the forefront ...
>
> Aaron
> Clermont County Public Library, Ohio
>
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Joan Cales wrote:
>
> >
> > We are excited to be hosting the "Frankenstein" exhibit and would like
to
> > have offer a book discussion series that includes Mary Shelley's
> > "Frankenstein". I am seeking books that explore what it is to be human,
our
> > connections and responsibilities to other living beings, particularily
those
> > more vulnerable than ourselves - the nature of power and consequences of
> > misuse.
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Cynthia Orr <cynthia.orr@cpl.org>
REC'D: 4/25/02, 10:06 AM

I always take any opportunity to push one of my old favorites:

He She and It by Marge Piercy is a wonderful book.

It's set in the future--only about 60 or so years from now, because I
remember thinking that one of the main characters, who is in her 80s in
the story, would be about the same age as my 20 year-old daughter.

In this future society, the Internet is a pervasive part of life, and you
log in by physically plugging a cable into your neck. What this means is
that an attack by hackers can literally fry your brains. There is much
other wonderful stuff about the future of the Net, such as being to
project yourself through virtual reality right into the Net itself and
travel by hopping onto a packet of data.

Another much deeper level of the novel, though, concerns a small village's
efforts to protect itself from attacks over the Net from huge
multinational corporations by building a cyborg--part human, part
machine--so that its reflexes will be fast enough to protect them from
corporate hackers. This thread is interwoven with the story of Rabbi Low
who, legend has it, built a golem in the Prague Jewish ghetto in the16th
century so that it could protect his people.

Questions arise: What is life? If you create life, do you have the right to
destroy it? I think
this book would fit exceptionally well with your display.

Cindy

>We are excited to be hosting the "Frankenstein" exhibit and would like to
>have offer a book discussion series that includes Mary Shelley's
>"Frankenstein". I am seeking books that explore what it is to be human, our
>connections and responsibilities to other living beings, particularily
those
>more vulnerable than ourselves - the nature of power and consequences of
>misuse.
> Any ideas would be appreciated. I would be happy to compile and post a
>list.


---
Cynthia Orr
Collection Manager
Cleveland Public Library
17133 Lake Shore Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44110
(216) 623-2906
Fax - (216)623-2977
www.cpl.org

FROM: Lucy Lockley <llockley@mail.win.org>
REC'D: 4/25/02, 10:17 AM

Joan:

Below is a copy of a short list complied about a year ago for the Fiction_L
website, found under the Booklists and titled 'Monster Narrators' which
includes M. Shelley's "Frankenstein" along with six other titles. The
other titles just might fit with your topic. I might also suggest Michael
Crichton's older title "Terminal Man" and "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel
Keyes.

'Monster Narrators: Stories Featuring Monster Narrators/Protagonists as
Outsiders to Human Culture'.
July 2001. Complied by Jeff Lacy of Lama University (TX), from
contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

Bakis, Kirsten "Lives of the Monster Dogs"
Gardner, John "Grendel"
Lewis, C.S. "The Screwtape Letters"
Lovecraft, H.P. "The Outsider"
Shelley, Mary "Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus"
Sherrill, Stephen "The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break"
Williams, Tad "Caliban's Hour"

Lucy M. Lockley Phone: 636/441.2300, Ext. 1563
Collection Development Manager FAX: 636/441.3132
St. Charles City-County Library District
425 Spencer Road
P.O. Box 529 e-mail: llockley@mail.win.org
St. Peters, MO 63376-0529 Library website: www.win.org/library

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of a virgin?! No one has ANY standards anymore!"
Giles, the Librarian ('Buffy, the Vampire Slayer')
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FROM: "Theresa L. Anderson" <andersont@boulder.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 4/25/02, 6:59 PM

I am also in the middle of reading "The Children Of God" the sequel to "The Sparrow" and highly recommend it for you as well.

Tessa

Theresa Anderson
Boulder Public Library

>>> smithaa@oplin.lib.oh.us 04/25/02 06:52AM >>>
Joan -

I have been absolutely blown away by a recent reading of Mary Doria
Russell's _Children of God_, concerning very human vices and virtues as
they wrestle with racial conflict in another civilization. I have not yet
read her related _Sparrow_, but stylistically and structurally the former
is a masterwork.

Good luck keeping the high-minded focus in the forefront ...

Aaron
Clermont County Public Library, Ohio

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Joan Cales wrote:

>
> We are excited to be hosting the "Frankenstein" exhibit and would like to
> have offer a book discussion series that includes Mary Shelley's
> "Frankenstein". I am seeking books that explore what it is to be human, our
> connections and responsibilities to other living beings, particularily those
> more vulnerable than ourselves - the nature of power and consequences of
> misuse.

FROM: "BookBitch" <bookbitch@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 4/25/02, 7:30 PM

Frank by Fred Petrovsky
From the publisher: What is a person? Who can play God? In this
cutting-edge novel about the first successful brain transplant, first-time
author Fred Petrovsky explores age-old questions of human identity in a
Frankenstein for the 21st century.

I am the BookBitch
www.bookbitch.com

FROM: "Steven A. Roman" <Roman@addison.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 4/27/02, 9:24 AM

I would like to take a moment to recommend the book _Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep_ by Philip K. Dick. If you've seen the film _Blade Runner_,
then you have some familiarity with the story, since it was based on this
novel.


Steven

Addison Public Library
Two Friendship Plaza
Addison, IL 60101
630-543-3617


-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Smith [mailto:smithaa@oplin.lib.oh.us]
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 7:53 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Frankenstein


Joan -

I have been absolutely blown away by a recent reading of Mary Doria
Russell's _Children of God_, concerning very human vices and virtues as
they wrestle with racial conflict in another civilization. I have not yet
read her related _Sparrow_, but stylistically and structurally the former
is a masterwork.

Good luck keeping the high-minded focus in the forefront ...

Aaron
Clermont County Public Library, Ohio

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Joan Cales wrote:

>
> We are excited to be hosting the "Frankenstein" exhibit and would like to
> have offer a book discussion series that includes Mary Shelley's
> "Frankenstein". I am seeking books that explore what it is to be human,
our
> connections and responsibilities to other living beings, particularily
those
> more vulnerable than ourselves - the nature of power and consequences of
> misuse.

FROM: Ellen Olson <Ellen@rockford.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 4/27/02, 9:45 AM

-----Original Message-----
From: Ellen Olson
To: 'Joan Cales '
Sent: 4/27/2002 9:34 AM
Subject: RE: Frankenstein

Has anyone mentioned Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers? I read Plowing the
Dark and thought this author was outstanding. From the book flap:
...Lenze involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to
train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books until the machine
becomes capable of passing a comprehensive exam in English literature.
Through repeated turorials, the device grows gradually more worldly,
until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for
existing.

Ellen Olson
ellen@rockford.lib.il.us

-----Original Message-----
From: Joan Cales
To: Fiction_L
Sent: 4/24/2002 4:42 PM
Subject: Frankenstein


We are excited to be hosting the "Frankenstein" exhibit and would like
to
have offer a book discussion series that includes Mary Shelley's
"Frankenstein". I am seeking books that explore what it is to be human,
our
connections and responsibilities to other living beings, particularily
those
more vulnerable than ourselves - the nature of power and consequences of
misuse.
Any ideas would be appreciated. I would be happy to compile and post
a
list.

Thanks,
Joan Cales
Special Services Librarian
Winfield Public Library http://www.wpl.org
605 College 316-221-4470
Winfield, KS. 67156 Fax#316-221-6135

FROM: Ellen Olson <Ellen@rockford.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 4/27/02, 9:55 AM

I wish that I'd thought of this book. Its great. We used this for a book
discussion and had lots to talk about. It has a more involved plot than the
movie.
Ellen Olson
ellen@rockford.lib.il.us

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven A. Roman
To: Fiction_L
Sent: 4/27/2002 8:56 AM
Subject: RE: Frankenstein

I would like to take a moment to recommend the book _Do Androids Dream
of
Electric Sheep_ by Philip K. Dick. If you've seen the film _Blade
Runner_,
then you have some familiarity with the story, since it was based on
this
novel.


Steven

Addison Public Library
Two Friendship Plaza
Addison, IL 60101
630-543-3617


-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Smith [mailto:smithaa@oplin.lib.oh.us]
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 7:53 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Frankenstein


Joan -

I have been absolutely blown away by a recent reading of Mary Doria
Russell's _Children of God_, concerning very human vices and virtues as
they wrestle with racial conflict in another civilization. I have not
yet
read her related _Sparrow_, but stylistically and structurally the
former
is a masterwork.

Good luck keeping the high-minded focus in the forefront ...

Aaron
Clermont County Public Library, Ohio

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Joan Cales wrote:

>
> We are excited to be hosting the "Frankenstein" exhibit and would like
to
> have offer a book discussion series that includes Mary Shelley's
> "Frankenstein". I am seeking books that explore what it is to be
human,
our
> connections and responsibilities to other living beings, particularily
those
> more vulnerable than ourselves - the nature of power and consequences
of
> misuse.

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