AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Thinking about reading the Princess Bride after my current book

Thoughts?

Its a classic for a reason

Yes.

Lets be honest here

a solid 60% of "classic" books have gone right down the shitter

Nah, 30% tops. I mean, Catcher in the Rye sucks booty, but stuff like Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird still holds up well.

Never did see the appeal of Hemmingways stuff though, it just seemed like an instruction manual for binge drinking

Huckleberry only holds up until Tom Sawyer comes back into the picture and all of Huck's development is undone instantly for him to participate in a stupid plan.

I'd expand it to 40%. You know, to get Great Gatsby under that umbrella of awful.

So I was in-between a double shift on RUCKY day and decided to go hang out at the coffee shop downtown while I was on my break. This coffee shop is also an occasional music venue and has a nicely stocked used book store on the second floor. I went upstairs to look at all the cool 1950's mystery books and when I pulled one off the shelf, another fell onto my face, more specifically, my eye.

The book is called The Hundred Secret Senses and it's essentially about two sisters, one of which is adopted from a previous marriage the father had in China. The Chinese girl is missing an eye, but is gifted with the ability to see ancestors/ghosts in her left, or Yin, eye. Also, the story starts out on RUCKY day.

On RUCKY day, I got hit in the eye by a book about a girl with a missing eye which happens to mention RUCKY day within the first few pages?

I bought it for three bucks.
Oddly enough, it's a really awesome book so far.

I only made it 30% through Moby Dick.

I'll push through it.



Also One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is really alright.

You talking about classics?
Read Goethe's Faust.

These days, I stick mostly to short novel classics. Anyone ever read The Great God Pan? AWESOME stuff

I started this book. I love it. But reading it makes my mind stop working.

I had (well, have, it's at my parents house somewhere) a copy of the Silmarillion that included some extra Middle-Earth history and references and stuff, plus a little bit of Elven dictionary in the back. I had fun making up Elven names.

I also had a book of maps and Middle-Earth battles and stuff. Wow, I didn't realize how much of a LoTR nerd I used to be. All the more reason to get back into it, I guess.

And yet I still haven't gone to see the Hobbit...

Recently finished Douglas Coupland's Generation A.
It's about bees, and people. It's very neato.
It takes place in a future where all the bees have disappeared and people are losing themselves in a new drug called Solon.
Out of nowhere six people are stung and the world goes apeshit over them.
I recommend.

So I finished the Dark Tower series.
I loved it, I still technically have The Wind Through the Keyhole to read, but it's an interquel. I recommend the series to anyone who doesn't suck.

People were talking talking about Cather in the Rye and story structure in the Confessions thread then we were told to move it here oh gosh.

Having read Catcher and somewhat enjoyed it, wasn't the climax the argument with Phoebe, and the main development of the plot was Holden's simultaneous physical and emotional break-down? Also, I thought the actually development of Holden was more along the lines of him being a deeper character then one my think at first, what with the whole "Catcher in the Rye" speech being different then most everything he said up to that point. Also I thought the conclusion of the book was Holden telling the Phyc he would try to go back to school and do better? Sorta an implied-albeit-unseen development, It's been a bit since I've read the book, honestly.

I guess you could make the argument that Catcher is more a character study then a story, or at least better at being the former then the latter. Also even though I liked it I wouldn't say its for everyone. I'm not sure if I would even recommend it, really.

Alright, If anyone actually want's to keep discussing this that's nice, if not that's cool too.