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• A Modest Proposal finished

  Quite interesting. I've known of "A Modest Proposal" for a long time and I have appreciated the opportunity to read it. It only took a handful of episodes to finish it.
  
  I would mark this down as "interesting" and I am glad to have read it. I can quite see how, at the time, it might have outraged some people -- the same people who don't "get" irony today, I would imagine. The basic premise is preposterous, but he then carries things to their logical conclusion, without missing a step. I posted this on 23 April 2009
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Where Are the Children? - How can I "Try it for free" ???

In the most recent DailyLit News I read, "- Mary Higgins Clark: Best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark comes to DailyLit with Where are the Children? This thriller will take you to Cape Cod, a summer paradise that becomes one woman's nightmare. TRY FOR FREE."

Please can someone explain to me, exactly how can I do this? This is a paid-for book, and the link in the email doesn't take me to some special page which offers the first chapter(s) free.

I have already asked this of DailyLit management (via email) but I have had no response. I am not impressed.

I posted this topic 5 months ago. Reply (1)

Feedback - Feedback Forum

I've just read "I Thought Once How Theocritus Had Sung," in the "Late, Great Poets" series. It has proper em-dashes! So much of the rest of your material only has two en-dashes, looking like this: "--". It's incredibly nasty, especially when (as in some poems) dashes are somewhat over-used. Can't you go through your library and do a search-and-replace (and proof-read :-) one with the other, please?

I posted this topic 6 months ago. Replies (48)

A Modest Proposal - Quite interesting.

I've known of "A Modest Proposal" for a long time and I have appreciated the opportunity to read it. It only took a handful of episodes to finish it.

I would mark this down as "interesting" and I am glad to have read it. I can quite see how, at the time, it might have outraged some people -- the same people who don't "get" irony today, I would imagine. The basic premise is preposterous, but he then carries things to their logical conclusion, without missing a step.

I posted this topic 7 months ago. Replies (0)

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I just want to say thank you for the Wikipedia Grand Tour. I'm finding it fascinating (sometimes) and the DailyLit chunked version is just what I need.

Before that I tried Moby Dick and didn't do so well :)

I posted this topic 7 months ago. Replies (48)

Bugs - Frequency

Darn! I can't seem to get an installment per week any more. What happened?

I posted this topic last year. Reply (1)