ok, so discussion at book club was the most intense thus far...about whether the mother who died in as i lay dying was just plain mean or a tragic figure worthy of sympathy because she did not have access to birth control and the man she married turned out to be a lazy good for nothing.........obviously i agreed with the latter sentiment........the bundren family was quite a bunch of dysfunctionals.....the discussion turned to the likelihood that most families have their share of dysfunction if we were all honest about our troubled lives......no one took that bait......i, for one, did not see the point of telling this group just how dysfunctional my family can be.........