man. this book was fucking depressing, hixx. all i could keep thinking was, this is one of the more depressing books i've read. i think maybe only jude the obscure beats it. what is with these english cats? i meet them and they woo me with their english accents, but when they write, they've got me in a beat down. not to mention that i think one of the only other places i could live would be london, but i read this shit, and all my mind sees is gray, grey, gra/ey.
so, first thing. i want to know why this is your favorite or one of your favorite books, hixx. what gives?
okay. then who is your favorite character/s?
what do you think the lesson is that we're supposed to learn (if any)?
any favorite moment or scenes?
anything else you want to discuss, post it!
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
depresso
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The main problem with this novel is that people read it like a novel. By that I mean it really needs to be read slow. It was written as a weekly serial I do believe. It is a depressing novel and the title says it all. Almost always our great expectations of something aren't realized, even if we get what we were searching for.
i *did* read it really slow, actually. when i was first reading it, i was reading it online, so i was only reading a few chapters a night. then, when i got the hard copy of the book, i still wasn't blasting through it like i would a regular novel. that was one of the things that was killing me, kind of. i was like .. what the fuck is up with all this random shit?!
of course, i expected that it would all tie together, but it makes sense that it was a serial. and i guess i should have known better, given that a lot of my crowd likes to say that resentments are proportional (inversely so?) to our expectations ...
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