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You know this book isn't so bad, it's the puerile, third grade-esque annotations that are scattered throughout as if I'm supposed to care what parts of the text are conveyed in the movie and how. It's highly unlikely I'll ever watch the movie. There are condensed versions of what the text is telling me, written with question marks after them, as if they are some new profound thought that should be debated upon. I don't know who you are, random stranger who annotated this book in the past, but if I ever meet you I want to smack you in the head and say 'REALLY!? you had to WRITE THAT DOWN!?' The handwriting doesn't look mentally deficient, but the sloppy cursive has started to grate on my nerves.
I have annotated exactly one book in my life, and that was Moscow 1812, and in that case I added further information and references to past campaigns to remind myself of some of the historical roots of military decisions and/or personalities involved. I also didn't go mailing the book off for some random stranger to then have to read through with my handwriting all over it.
The book itself feels a bit like I should be reading it for class, except for the subject matter. I'm thinking I might have even read some passages from Howard's End in class, during the classical literature unit wherein we instead read the most disgusting piece of 'women's liberation' literature ever written. Seriously I would rather stab myself in the eye then read anything Kate Chopin has written ever again. The Awakening is the first and the only book I have ever destroyed upon finishing it, paying the lost book fee to my highschool for the satisfaction of tearing that piece of absolute rubbish page from page until that particular copy could never incur a hatred of reading in america's youth again.
Seriously if they just changed the books they forced us to read in high school (there were only one or two I enjoyed, the rest I have pointedly forgotten, save the object of my ultimate ire) I think reading would come back into fashion among people under 25.
Um I digressed a bit there, but what I meant to say, is I am enjoying the book, seeing a premise that I have seen lately covered much more freely in that delicate and careful way of the era it was written in. I finally broke down and ordered some Oscar Wilde in the middle of all the Sherlock Holmes, and I suppose I'll see if I like that. I was always too impatient for Frankenstein or Dracula, so I'm hoping I'll make it through them, but if not I think the volume cost me a massive $4, so no major loss.
I have read four and a half books already this month, it's looking like it may be a six or seven book month for me, but I think I'll break off my reviews after I finish Maurice, and push back Ice Palace Murders and whatever else I finish this month off into a separate post at the end of the month.
I have annotated exactly one book in my life, and that was Moscow 1812, and in that case I added further information and references to past campaigns to remind myself of some of the historical roots of military decisions and/or personalities involved. I also didn't go mailing the book off for some random stranger to then have to read through with my handwriting all over it.
The book itself feels a bit like I should be reading it for class, except for the subject matter. I'm thinking I might have even read some passages from Howard's End in class, during the classical literature unit wherein we instead read the most disgusting piece of 'women's liberation' literature ever written. Seriously I would rather stab myself in the eye then read anything Kate Chopin has written ever again. The Awakening is the first and the only book I have ever destroyed upon finishing it, paying the lost book fee to my highschool for the satisfaction of tearing that piece of absolute rubbish page from page until that particular copy could never incur a hatred of reading in america's youth again.
Seriously if they just changed the books they forced us to read in high school (there were only one or two I enjoyed, the rest I have pointedly forgotten, save the object of my ultimate ire) I think reading would come back into fashion among people under 25.
Um I digressed a bit there, but what I meant to say, is I am enjoying the book, seeing a premise that I have seen lately covered much more freely in that delicate and careful way of the era it was written in. I finally broke down and ordered some Oscar Wilde in the middle of all the Sherlock Holmes, and I suppose I'll see if I like that. I was always too impatient for Frankenstein or Dracula, so I'm hoping I'll make it through them, but if not I think the volume cost me a massive $4, so no major loss.
I have read four and a half books already this month, it's looking like it may be a six or seven book month for me, but I think I'll break off my reviews after I finish Maurice, and push back Ice Palace Murders and whatever else I finish this month off into a separate post at the end of the month.