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Post by poseidon on Mar 11, 2006 13:45:42 GMT -5
I'm 3/4 of the way thru the book. So far its pretty good.
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Post by rockkid on Mar 11, 2006 13:48:47 GMT -5
Bless you baby I hate to tell you but disappointment is lurking round the corner like a phoner.
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Post by luke on Mar 12, 2006 22:44:48 GMT -5
Can't be anymore disappointing than the fucking waste that ended the Gunslinger series. I invested well over a decade reading over 5,000 pages of the series, and then, man, what an awful ending.
Finished White Hotel some time ago...the book struck me as so average and meandering until I got closer to the end, and then it was like, "HOLY SHIT!" What an amazing book. I took Mary's advice and didn't read the back cover. Afterwards, I did, and was in SHOCK at what I read. The entire book, completely fucking spoiled. I couldn't believe it.
My wife picked up the first Harry Potter earlier this year to "get in touch" with what her students are reading. She became obsessed, and just finished the sixth book.
But she borrowed it from one of her kids. The book was in pretty crappy shape, but this kid is a total book nerd. And last night, we had a big party at my house, and went through pitcher after pitcher of margaritas and gallons of tequila. My wife threw up in the bed...all over the side...and all over this kid's Harry Potter book.
Dunno what she's gonna do. Can't tell this kid, "Hey, your reading teacher got drunk and puked all over your book."
I think it's hilarious, myself.
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Post by rockysigman on Mar 12, 2006 22:52:23 GMT -5
Can't be anymore disappointing than the fucking waste that ended the Gunslinger series. I invested well over a decade reading over 5,000 pages of the series, and then, man, what an awful ending. Finished White Hotel some time ago...the book struck me as so average and meandering until I got closer to the end, and then it was like, "HOLY SHIT!" What an amazing book. I took Mary's advice and didn't read the back cover. Afterwards, I did, and was in SHOCK at what I read. The entire book, completely fucking spoiled. I couldn't believe it. My wife picked up the first Harry Potter earlier this year to "get in touch" with what her students are reading. She became obsessed, and just finished the sixth book. But she borrowed it from one of her kids. The book was in pretty crappy shape, but this kid is a total book nerd. And last night, we had a big party at my house, and went through pitcher after pitcher of margaritas and gallons of tequila. My wife threw up in the bed...all over the side...and all over this kid's Harry Potter book. Dunno what she's gonna do. Can't tell this kid, "Hey, your reading teacher got drunk and puked all over your book." I think it's hilarious, myself. That is hilarious. But yeah, not something you can tell the kid. If the book was in really shitty shape, then the kid would probably believe that it competely fell apart. Buy him a new one and say that the old one just disintegrated. |
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Post by wayved on Mar 13, 2006 1:00:59 GMT -5
Yeah--your wife cant give that book back now! Like Rocky said! She gotta throw some lines at that poor child--"You deserved a new copy" or some crazy stuff! I hope he wasent attached to that like you were your first Local H cassette/CD/ LP! it is funny though....(in my opinion its what the book deserved-haha!)
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Post by luke on Mar 13, 2006 9:35:47 GMT -5
Well, apparently the kid is the biggest book nerd in the school, but he treats his books like shit. Like, sections of the book were falling out of the spine, it was bad.
Think she's gonna see how much she can fix the book up before buying a new one...and if she has to do that, I suppose we can get one off half.com or something. That book's like forty bucks.
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Post by phil on Mar 13, 2006 9:56:39 GMT -5
You could always tell the kid your dogs ate it ... !!
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 13, 2006 11:16:08 GMT -5
I'm 1/4th of the way thru CELL right now. . . . lovin it so far . . . (I had to skip your post on it, rockkid. . . figure I'll wait till I'm done w/it)
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Post by rockkid on Mar 13, 2006 12:07:08 GMT -5
You should have skipped the book instead
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Post by luke on Mar 13, 2006 12:08:47 GMT -5
You could always tell the kid your dogs ate it ... !! "The dog threw up on it" was definitely in consideration. We'll figure something out. |
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Post by wayved on Mar 14, 2006 22:34:30 GMT -5
Reading Zappa by Barry Miles--im digging it.
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Post by phil on Mar 14, 2006 23:14:52 GMT -5
This is the Zappa Book I love ...  DANGEROUS KITCHEN : The Subversive World of Zappa (Kevin Courrier) |
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Post by Mary on Mar 15, 2006 1:17:36 GMT -5
Finished White Hotel some time ago...the book struck me as so average and meandering until I got closer to the end, and then it was like, "HOLY SHIT!" What an amazing book. I took Mary's advice and didn't read the back cover. Afterwards, I did, and was in SHOCK at what I read. The entire book, completely fucking spoiled. I couldn't believe it. I'm so glad you read The White Hotel, Luke! I found the middle sections of the book fairly meandering as well, although I was totally gripped by the poem and the weird prose retelling of the poem that opened the book. But yeah, as soon as you hit the ending, it's both shocking and forces you to re-evaluate everything that came beforehand. I can't believe the fucking moron who wrote the back jacket for that book - and I can't believe no one in the publishing industry ever said "wait a minute, we can't put that on the back of the book!" before it was mass-printed! Anyway when you get a chance I recommend rereading the first two parts of the book in light of what you've discovered at the end....totally changes the meaning of a lot of the poetic symbolism. 'Specially the orange grove floating by the window... becomes sooo sad.... Cheers, M |
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Post by Rit on Mar 15, 2006 11:45:42 GMT -5
for my next read, i have my eye on Donald Kagan's Peloponnesian War
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Post by luke on Mar 15, 2006 13:24:58 GMT -5
Mary, I'll definitely re-read the first couple sections. I found that through-out the book, I repeatedly referenced the poem at the beginning.
As the years crept forward and the book had over a hundred pages left, I began to get this sort of sense of what was about to happen, but never in such a fashion. I could feel my brain rewinding itself and recoding the book and so much of its symbolism while I was reading the last pages.
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