Book Discussion

[alias_fan]

i had to read the cay in class a couple years ago... hated it!

 

[a.k.a.Kate_Jones]

ugh... I hate hate hate The Cay. I didn't like it to begin with, and those response to literature worksheets we were forced to do didn't help too much. ^_^

ah, the other America. sounds pretty disturbing. you know, I like to read fluffy stories, about pretty things, more than ugly, nitty-gritty fiction.

but if you ever get through it, it might be an interesting thing to analyze. what's the overall message?

 

[Victoria King]

what is this nitty gritty one?! im lost i must have missed something!:blink:

 

[a.k.a.Kate_Jones]

Last Exit to Brooklyn.

 

[Victoria King]

by whom? may i ask?

 

[Existentialist]

by whom? may i ask?

If you're asking about Last Exit to Brooklyn, it is by Hubert Selby Jr, who also wrote Requiem for a Dream. And btvaughn, it was written in 1964... so it is very realistic, which makes it even more sad. The overall message, I think, is that one can find beauty in even the most pity-able (I think I just made up that word...) situations. But you don't really get it until the end of the last vignette... which I cheated and read. Something like that.

 

[btvaughn]

thanks Leah, and btw feel free to call me bridget!

But the story actually does sound interesting. I've always wanted to read a realistic book.

 

[a.k.a.Kate_Jones]

:lol: don't worry, Leah, I usually cheat and read the endings of books too. ^_^

 

[alias_fan]

i've not done that for about 5 years now... i'm very proud of myself.

 

[btvaughn]

I try not to, really I do, but sometimes I'll just "skim" ahead to the good parts! lol

 

[alias_fan]

lol... it took me awhile but i stopped. i just hated ruining it for myself.

 

[Victoria King]

I try not to, really I do, but sometimes I'll just "skim" ahead to the good parts! lol

LMAO! I DO THAT TOO! especially with books i have already read or if im reading a book for the first time and its really interesting i'll go read the last two lines or such(a habit that i find very hard to break! ^_^ )

like in anthem i read the scared word before i knew there was a scared word!LOL and read the whole fire ant part in pw before that happened!LMAO! ^_^

 

[btvaughn]

I know, I'll try not to read the last few sentences, but I can't help it. Then I know what happens and I'm so mad at myself! But it's a bigger problem with mysteries, but since I'm not much of a fan of those, I just spoil everything else!

 

[a.k.a.Kate_Jones]

let's see, I need more books to read!!

yesterday I read Breakfast At Tiffany's, and this morning I just finished Girl, Interrupted.

both were excellent, but I enjoyed Girl, Interrupted more. ^_^

 

[Existentialist]

Sometimes I read just the last sentence of a book before I finish it. Like, I read the last sentence to the Fountainhead before I was even like halfway through. I had NO clue what it meant though... and of course, I'm still kinda fuzzy. :lol: Usually I don't understand it, so it's kind of fun to read the rest and then be like "ohh THAT's what they meant by that!"

Anyone read The Stranger, by Camus?

 

[Victoria King]

no ihavent, can you tell us about it? i may read it!lol
and i know what you mean about reading ahead! especially with mysteries, i dont like suprises well and im not pateint at all!!!!not at all!

 

[btvaughn]

lol...same here Leah! And do tell about the story.....it sounds kind of familiar.

 

[alias_fan]

does anyone read agatha christie? i've read like so many of her books... my weakness is mystery. i just love it.

 

[btvaughn]

i'm not a big fan of mysteries....but I did read And Then There Were None for school and I liked that!

 

[crazy spinster]

woohoo!! i'm done with school!! which means tons of summer reading ahead of me!! yaaay!!

i have to ease into it with fluffy books first though. my brain just doesn't have the energy to get into something like the da vinci code.