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Feb 07, 2008 22:13

I'm about halfway through "Love in the Time of Cholera"...and...I've got to say I'm a little disappointed. I don't know what I was expecting, but it's not really...I don't know. Ugh. Maybe it'll redeem itself in the second half, but so far it's been pretty much 80% weirdly described sex scenes. Maybe it's the translation, but pretty much the ( Read more... )

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endroit February 8 2008, 17:34:06 UTC

you know speaking of books I started to read and got disappointed and stopped reading, 'on the road' I dunno why but I just couldn't get engaged by it.

but you know what book was great and I thought it would be terrible? Ulysses by James Joyce. it was incredibly moving and I've never read a novel so stylized on characterizations as that book though the end seem to consist of five really long sentences.

PS: have you gone to the post office yet??

anthershrtruind February 9 2008, 04:02:06 UTC

Funny you should mention that because I bought a new bookshelf a couple of days ago and was reordering my books and picked up "on the road". I've had that book on the shelf for six years and have never gotten up enough interest to read it. I'm ashamed to admit that the reason I bought it in the first place in high school was because this boy I had an irrational and all-consuming crush on read it for a school project and told me I should read it. But I never actually did and even if I had, I never would have had the capacity to pull it together and sensibly talk about it with him. It was one of those crushes when all ability to communicate coherently completely deserts you and you literally can't SAY anything. That's a really horrible feeling.

I mailed the thing day before yesterday, so soon...

I'll have to look into Ulysses...I need something really good to bring me back from the creepy sex in Love in the Time of Cholera.

hokeypokey33 February 8 2008, 21:07:41 UTC

Haha, i used to think the same thing when we did the section on symbolism in American Lit. in high school. I bet a lot of authors would probably laugh at how some people interpret their works.

Maybe the "Love in the time of Cholera" book is trying to say Love causes a big shitty mess when it doesn't go the way you want it to...and cholera causes a big shitty mess too?

anthershrtruind February 9 2008, 04:02:59 UTC

Hey, that's just as sensible an interpretation as any I've heard so far.

I just like to read books for the story and the characters. I don't want to be searching for hidden meanings in everything.

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anthershrtruind February 10 2008, 15:23:03 UTC

Hey! I just read your text. New Orleans was so great...I love it there. It's so unique that it's hard to believe you're still in the U.S.--there's just a totally different vibe. I'm not sure how the visit to Tulane went. I really have no idea. I mean, I'm not sure what kind of impression I made. I liked the school a lot (all of the buildings in the older part of campus are grey stone and over 100 years old) and the professors and grad students are really nice too. One of the grad students who I went to lunch with is really into making fossil casts and then doing facial reconstructions of hominids. It is so cool! He said he used to work in LA as some kind of special effects guy on horror movie sets Somebody told me he'd done something for the Blair Witch Project and also for Scary Movie 2. And also he worked part-time on the set of some spoof of "300" that is supposed to be coming out. I don't know what it was that he did though ( ... )