"Ultimate Discourse" Podcasts

I reviewed the podcasts from your "Ultimate Discourse" responses again as I evaluated journals, and took the opportunity to add tags and descriptions to them. Here they are again:

Bigger Classroom #35 - Shelby's First Podcast

Shelby chooses the film Ever After for her response to EL Doctorow's "Ultimate Discourse."



Bigger Classroom #34 - Cliff's Podcast

Cliff chooses the novel Lord of the Flies for his response to EL Doctorow's "Ultimate Discourse."



Bigger Classroom #30 - Nate's Podcast

Nate applies Doctorow's claim that fiction tells us "without shame what people do with their bodies and think with their minds" to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code



Bigger Classroom #29 - Linda May's First Podcast

Linda applies Doctorow's statement that readers experience what the character experience ("This is the way it is, it will say, this is what it feels like,") to Nicholas Sparks' The Notebook.



Bigger Classroom #28 - Dawn's Podcast

Dawn applies Doctorow's statement that fiction "will know [characters] nightmares and blinding moments of moral crisis" to Robert Heinlein's book Job.



Bigger Classroom #27 - Hank's Podcast

Hank applies two of Doctorow's statements to Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Doctorow notes that "The fiction writer...understands the homage a modern up-to-date world of nonfiction specialists pays to his craft--even as it isolates him and tells him he is a liar," and that "Weather reports on television are constructed with exact attention to conflict (high-pressure areas clashing with lows)."



Bigger Classroom #33 - Jeff's First Podcast

Jeff chooses All Quiet on the Western Front for his response to EL Doctorow's "Ultimate Discourse"



Bigger Classroom #26 - Patricia's First Podcast

Patricia chooses Stephen King's The Green Mile for her response to EL Doctorow's "Ultimate Discourse."



Bigger Classroom #25 - Linda Moody's Podcast

Linda relates James Patterson's The Honeymoon to EL Doctorow's assertion that fiction "distributes the suffering. It says we must compose ourselves in our stories in order to exist."



Bigger Classroom #24 - Bonnie's First Podcast

Bonnie chooses the movie Heidi for her response to EL Doctorow's "Ultimate Discourse."