I never posted anything on Anna Karenina. Just remembered that. It was freakin' awesome, but really long. So if you can't read more than a 400 page book, don't even bother. This is ridiculous.
Anyway, it was a major love story. Several love stories actually. Lenin and Kitty and Anna and Vronsky (yes, his name is weird, it's russian. They're all Russian.) Lenin and Kitty get to live happily ever after, but Anna is a whole nother (wow that does not look right) story.
See, she was already amrried before she met Vronsky, but fell in love with him anyway. And had a baby with him. And her husband found out. But couldn't divorce her because he'd look bad. But she didn't love him anymore. And couldn't leave him because he had her other, legitimate, son. Who she loved a lot. So she couldn't leave with Vronsky, or marry him, or anything. And she was really depressed and unhappy. So she threw herself under a train. And that's it.
I loved it. So good.
So recap: love story, sad, tragic, awesome. Got to read it.
24.2.11
23.2.11
Kill That Mockingbird
Harper Lee is amazing. Seriously. I don't know if she was brilliant or just lucky, but To Kill A Mockingbird was so good. There was something about the perspective that really did it for me. It's all from the point of this women looking back on the years when she was small and a complete tomboy. It's rather funny, actually.
She is fighting people, swearing, wearing pants. Not what you'd except from a girl of the 1930s. And everyone tells her that. I like her a lot. She has guts.
Everyone of course knows that it's all about racial discrimination, but I got even more than that, things about right and wrong, the big picture items (wow, I've never used that phrase before. I like it.) It talks of good and bad, fairness, cruelty, all that stuff, but it makes everything feel like you jut abosrbed it, not like you are being lectured by your mom or being told your manners suck. A lot books do that, and frankly, it makes me rather mad. So this is good.
When you read a book for school, it pretty much gaurentees that you're going to hate it and get completely bored, just because of the slowness, tests and pointles questions. If you read it for the heck of it, you can actually get it done and enjoy it and not have to listen to anything someone says. I've never noticed how school makes you hate books before, but man it does a good job of it. People really need to redesign English. Cause right now, it sucks. Just saying.
She is fighting people, swearing, wearing pants. Not what you'd except from a girl of the 1930s. And everyone tells her that. I like her a lot. She has guts.
Everyone of course knows that it's all about racial discrimination, but I got even more than that, things about right and wrong, the big picture items (wow, I've never used that phrase before. I like it.) It talks of good and bad, fairness, cruelty, all that stuff, but it makes everything feel like you jut abosrbed it, not like you are being lectured by your mom or being told your manners suck. A lot books do that, and frankly, it makes me rather mad. So this is good.
When you read a book for school, it pretty much gaurentees that you're going to hate it and get completely bored, just because of the slowness, tests and pointles questions. If you read it for the heck of it, you can actually get it done and enjoy it and not have to listen to anything someone says. I've never noticed how school makes you hate books before, but man it does a good job of it. People really need to redesign English. Cause right now, it sucks. Just saying.
20.2.11
Ethan Frome
Sucks. Terrible. No plot. Don't read it. There are none of the supposed 'emotions' in here. PLease just avoid it. Use Quicknotes if you have to.
Ugh.
Ugh.
The Place Where You Hate and Love Everything
I finished reading 1984 by George Orwell a couple days ago, and man, if you haven't read anything by him yet, you really need to. He has this thing where he writes about things that make you hate the book and everything in it, but can't say it's terrible because you love how it's written. I don't get it, it just happens. It left me completely confused afterwards, and I just love it.
It's about this post-apociliptic world where there are only 3 huge warring kingdoms and how everyone is controlled. In one of them, this man is part of the government, but everyone in government is supposed to love what they do and stay dumb. Or they kill you. That kind of thing. But they do it secretively and tell no one.
Also, while were at it, the thing that I loved most was how they manipulated the past to be whatever they said. They can make anything true just by changing records of it, erasing the proof. That's something most people would never even think of.
But in the end, the book shows just one thing- if we let society control us, we aren't ourselves anymore. We're just some twisted view that has nothing to with us at all. You can't have everything be true and good and perfect, because to make that happen we have to do some lying cheating terrible things. It's a shout out for life as it should be, not a quest for perfection.
It's about this post-apociliptic world where there are only 3 huge warring kingdoms and how everyone is controlled. In one of them, this man is part of the government, but everyone in government is supposed to love what they do and stay dumb. Or they kill you. That kind of thing. But they do it secretively and tell no one.
Also, while were at it, the thing that I loved most was how they manipulated the past to be whatever they said. They can make anything true just by changing records of it, erasing the proof. That's something most people would never even think of.
But in the end, the book shows just one thing- if we let society control us, we aren't ourselves anymore. We're just some twisted view that has nothing to with us at all. You can't have everything be true and good and perfect, because to make that happen we have to do some lying cheating terrible things. It's a shout out for life as it should be, not a quest for perfection.
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