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.
River: You gave up everything you had. Simon: [Chinese] Everything I have is right here.
'Safe'
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."
Barb - May 04, 2009 4:03:24 am PDT #9071 of 28406
“Not dead yet!”
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.
Connie Neil - May 04, 2009 11:17:02 am PDT #9080 of 28406
brillig
they let him continue with an admonition of pay attention
They consider people more likely to pay attention while reading than while texting? If the book was good, I wouldn't even be aware of what room I was in.