Brave New World........meh (spoilers)

[quicksigma]

I saw Spider-Man and it was awesome and I have many things to say about it. However, prior to that I decided to finish reading Brave New World and I need to get my thoughts on the internetz before I forget

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[lorata]

Well, I feel better about not remembering a thing since I read it in high school. I was home sick and half-delirious, and my whining was annoying everyone so someone gave me 'Brave New World' and 'Slaughterhouse V' to read. I read them both in the same afternoon while hopped up on cold & flu meds, and as a result they've both amalgamated in my head into this bizarre semi-apocalyptic drug haze. Ha! Doesn't sound like I've missed much.

I'm interested to hear what you say about Spiderman -- he was my favourite, growing up, but I'm tired of origin stories and I'm not sure I need to see how Peter Parker becomes Spidey AGAIN. I don't want to be one of those people put off by obviously-hipster-geek-chic-instead-of-actually-nerdy Spidey on the posters because marketing does not a movie make, but I dunno. I loved Spidey as a kid, all wise-cracking, punning, nerdy bits of him, and I'm wary of him being ~edgyfied for an audience that thinks racist jokes are funny if they're ironic.

(Also, lol, Atlas Shrugged.)

[quicksigma]

That reminds me, I really need to read Slaughterhouse V as well. It's been a while since I've read any Vonnegut and I think I was too young to really "get it" at the time.

I felt like you did that the origin story is nothing new but I'm glad that I went to see it in spite of that. This treatment of the character is considerably better than the Spiderman of the old trilogy and I feel like they couldn't have easily made more movies without some sort of origin-story-reboot. Now that it's out of the way I'm really looking forward to what they do next.