Totally agree. Aside from the fact that it's really quite terrifying in the good way - it makes more of a kind of unconscious sense more than a conscious one. like those 'rubber reality' films that are basically all the children of Jacob's Ladder.
Just gave up (again) on my biennial attempt to read Uncle Tom's Cabin. I've no idea how anyone wades through all that dialect. I'm thinking I'll try reading it out loud in 2017, though I like to read out on my deck when weather permits, and I don't want to become the neighborhood crazy person.
I recently finished We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. It was awful. Perhaps awful is a little strong, but I resented the structure of the dialogue by the end of it (I mentioned the previous book because it relates to the second; the two have pretty similar contexts for those that haven't read them). I am onto Brave New World by Aldous Huxley now. So far, much better!
I'm currently reading The Novice by Taran Matharu. To be honest, I'm not enjoying it. There was so much hype surrounding this book that I got my expectations pretty high and nothing about this book is capable of meeting them. In my opinion, this book should've been edited more before publication and the author needs to work on dialogue. None of the dialogue seems genuine, especially from the people speaking. Somehow there is a lowly servant who speaks more eloquently than most of the nobles and that really annoys me. I'm going to try and finish it anyways to see if it gets better.
I've already read Nineteen Eighty-Four. That was wonderful, Orwell is a fantastic writer. I felt truly crushed by the end of it.
Reading Wrecked by Shiloh Walker, it's a contemporary romance and so far I am really enjoying it. It is a nice light read.
Yeah, so I've been digging through Lord of the Flies for about a week now and I think it gotta go on the shelf for while. I'm about halfway through, but somehow it really doesn't click for it. People say it's this amazing book, but I just don't get it. To Kill a Mockingbird however... holy shit.
Just finished reading "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline and now slowly working through a graphic novel called Descender. If you're a nerd you'll love "Ready Player One"! The only thing is the ending feels rushed, but I believe there's a sequel to it being made.
The Cloud Road by Martha Wells. It's a fantasy story where none of the character are human. It's twist on the lost son/child trope. So far I really like it.
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder. An introduction to philosophy woven around a tale (not dissimilar in principle to The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists).
The Intellectuals and the Masses by John Carey. It's basically about how the intellectuals of the world adopted the attitude, and the Modernist movement was developed specifically to, to keep out all but the most privileged and exclusive readers. You are not good enough for Eliot - oh no, not if you can only just about read a book. Apparently it's all down to some Nietzschean fear of democracy taking away the 'aristocracy' of great people.
I loved Lord of the Flies when I read it in high school. I think because I kept wondering when everything was going to break and who was going to kill who, etc.
Yeah, someone spoiled it for me and I can't really get myself to finish it, because it wasn't that good before either. It was good, but not that good.
Well when someone spoils it, it's done then, isn't it. It's like going into the Sixth Sense already knowing that he's dead. There's no point to finishing it. Shame, really. There are a lot of good stories that get spoiled that way.
Omnivore's Dilemma, and soon the first book of Octavia Butler's Patternist Series. Co-reading with ladyfriend!!! Also, sort of reading Hardboiled Wonderland but probably won't stay committed. I'm starting to find Murakami's writing style so long-winded with so much nothing happening, it makes me wonder why I used to like him so much...
12 steps to a compassionate life by Karen Armstrong. Love the religious history and mythology and the idea that the major religions all have a form of the golden rule.
