I started reading Revolutionary Road (never saw the movie), and it's just ugh. I want to smack them and make them grow up. (Which I realize is kind of ironic, given that their misery seems to be 90% caused by them doing what they think "grown ups" should do...) Will anything happen later in the book to change this, or should I just stop reading?
You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Jesse - May 04, 2009 3:07:12 am PDT #9070 of 28406
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Barb - May 04, 2009 4:03:24 am PDT #9071 of 28406
“Not dead yet!”
It's not a happy book in the slightest, Jesse, and the ending is devastating.
The book is a tremendous reflection of its time, but yeah, it's a hard book in terms of wanting to smack the protags.
Jesse - May 04, 2009 4:37:10 am PDT #9072 of 28406
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, I don't need to reflect on those times in that way. OK, onward and upward!
Consuela - May 04, 2009 4:58:34 am PDT #9073 of 28406
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
And that is why I didn't want to watch the movie, and why I stopped watching Mad Men after 2 episodes.
I might have jury duty this afternoon. Cross your fingers that they let me read! (Last time I had jury duty I made it all the way to voir dire and they didn't let you read while you waited in the courtroom...)
Jesse - May 04, 2009 5:11:02 am PDT #9074 of 28406
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
At least on Mad Men you don't have to be inside their heads, and you can see the pretty clothes!
beth b - May 04, 2009 5:52:01 am PDT #9075 of 28406
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I got frowned at for reading last time
Beverly - May 04, 2009 6:20:58 am PDT #9076 of 28406
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
There was a tv blaring soaps and three separate conversations at competing volume last time I had to await jury selection. One of the people also waiting was a state cop. He walked by the coatroom and saw me tucked away there in semi-silence, reading, and flashed me a grin.
Kathy A - May 04, 2009 8:23:15 am PDT #9077 of 28406
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Polter-Cow - May 04, 2009 8:29:34 am PDT #9078 of 28406
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha! Impatient kitty is impatient!
Ginger - May 04, 2009 11:15:22 am PDT #9079 of 28406
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
And that is why I didn't want to watch the movie, and why I stopped watching Mad Men after 2 episodes.
Me too. I reserve whatever nostalgia I have for that era for penny candy and trick-or-treating without adult supervision.
DeKalb County library stocks the jury waiting area with a pretty wide variety of books that you can return to any library branch. I was impressed. No one seemed to mind reading during voir dire, although the judge was irritated when he thought one guy was texting. He was playing a game, though, and they let him continue with an admonition of pay attention.