Quitting, Goolwa and Books
I'm unhappy with my sales job. No surprise there. I just can't handle walking around in the heat every day, the annoying co-workers and having many doors slammed in my face every day. I'm not going to fluff around with wanting to quit, but not actually doing it this time. I can't get in contact with the office today, so I'll call them tomorrow morning and quit. I've spent the afternoon job hunting in anticipation.
This weekend, Nick and I were in Goolwa again. I'll do a post with photos of the beach soon.
In other news, I've begun my reading challenge for 50bookchallenge. These are the first four books I've read this year. The cuts are for the size of the cover art and adult content. No spoilers.
This book is about threesomes. Simple as that. It's non-fiction, and talks about everything from choosing the right partners to have a threesome with, to positions, to where and when to have them, etc. All with colour photographs of models going at it in different ways. It's a good guide to threesomes, and worth a read if you're an interested adult.
I've begun getting into King's books lately, and enjoying them. I'm going for the ones I know won't scare me too much and working my way up. Cujo is the second King book I've read. (The first was Carrie.)
To say the plot of Cujo is about a rabid St. Bernard who terrorizes a small town in Maine is grossly simplifying the plot. Yes, there is a St. Bernard named Cujo who gets rabies. Yes, he kills a bunch of people. However, there is a whole lot more to the plot than that. Take Cujo's owners, for example. The husband, Joe, is abusive towards his wife, Charity. Charity is terrified that their son, Brett, is going to grow up to be just like his daddy and is hoping that taking him to visit her sister and her upper-middle-class lifestyle will prevent that. Then there's the other main characters - Vic, Donna and their young son Tad. Donna's having an affair with a guy named Steve because she got bored and scared by 'happy housewife' role she's been thrust into. Steve has anger problems that come to dangerous light when Donna breaks it off. Vic's advertising company is in just as much trouble as his marriage and Tad... well, Tad is just the sweetest little kid who has a monster in his closet. So you see, there's a lot more to this story than "rabid dog."
I'd hesitate to call this a 'horror story.' There are moments of suspense, for sure, and the descriptions of the attacks are bloody and graphic. The instances of domestic abuse in this book were also disturbing. However, I found this book to be over-all more sad than scary. Cujo in particular I found to be a sympathetic character. Many of his scenes are told from his point of view, and the poor dog doesn't understand why he's feeling so ill and violent, why his joints ache and his head pounds. The people he kills he only attacks because he believes that they are the ones causing his pain. Before the rabies, he was a good, loving dog. The whole time, I thought about my own family's dogs while reading his parts.
King has a way of getting into the characters' heads like few authors I know of can. Men, women, children, animals... there doesn't seem to be any POV he can't write. He's descriptive without being overly so, and he layers details that will come to affect the plot well. What amazes me the most is the fact that when King wrote this book, he was doing heavy drugs and alcohol - to the point that he barely remembers writing it at all. Yet, the book isn't badly written in the slightest. I think that this text qualifies for the best thing ever created while on a bender.
I recommend Cujo 100%. It's not a novel for children or for people who already have a phobia of dogs, though. I enjoyed reading it a lot and I'm looking forward to reading more of Stephen King's works. I have a copy of Different Seasons that I'll begin soon.
Also, I've watched the movie as well, and it's a very good adaptation. There's one major change in it at the end, but I rather like it.
This book I've borrowed from my friend Gwen, who also enjoys cross stitching. In it are guides to make stitching samplers that read things such as "Fuck the dumb shit," "Happy Fucking Holidays," "Bite Me," "This Place Sucks," "Get Lost!," and "Get a Life." I'm going to start on some as soon as I finish another large stitching project I've been working on.
Another one from Gwen. This one has wonderfully dark and funny patterns that I also want to stitch soon. Lizzie Borden pillows, Day of the Dead skulls, poisonous flowers, and more. This and the other stitching book really are for any cross stitcher who's tired of teddy bear and flower samplers.
That's all for now.
Random Quote:
"It would prehaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog." - Stephen King, at the end of Cujo.
This weekend, Nick and I were in Goolwa again. I'll do a post with photos of the beach soon.
In other news, I've begun my reading challenge for 50bookchallenge. These are the first four books I've read this year. The cuts are for the size of the cover art and adult content. No spoilers.
This book is about threesomes. Simple as that. It's non-fiction, and talks about everything from choosing the right partners to have a threesome with, to positions, to where and when to have them, etc. All with colour photographs of models going at it in different ways. It's a good guide to threesomes, and worth a read if you're an interested adult.
I've begun getting into King's books lately, and enjoying them. I'm going for the ones I know won't scare me too much and working my way up. Cujo is the second King book I've read. (The first was Carrie.)
To say the plot of Cujo is about a rabid St. Bernard who terrorizes a small town in Maine is grossly simplifying the plot. Yes, there is a St. Bernard named Cujo who gets rabies. Yes, he kills a bunch of people. However, there is a whole lot more to the plot than that. Take Cujo's owners, for example. The husband, Joe, is abusive towards his wife, Charity. Charity is terrified that their son, Brett, is going to grow up to be just like his daddy and is hoping that taking him to visit her sister and her upper-middle-class lifestyle will prevent that. Then there's the other main characters - Vic, Donna and their young son Tad. Donna's having an affair with a guy named Steve because she got bored and scared by 'happy housewife' role she's been thrust into. Steve has anger problems that come to dangerous light when Donna breaks it off. Vic's advertising company is in just as much trouble as his marriage and Tad... well, Tad is just the sweetest little kid who has a monster in his closet. So you see, there's a lot more to this story than "rabid dog."
I'd hesitate to call this a 'horror story.' There are moments of suspense, for sure, and the descriptions of the attacks are bloody and graphic. The instances of domestic abuse in this book were also disturbing. However, I found this book to be over-all more sad than scary. Cujo in particular I found to be a sympathetic character. Many of his scenes are told from his point of view, and the poor dog doesn't understand why he's feeling so ill and violent, why his joints ache and his head pounds. The people he kills he only attacks because he believes that they are the ones causing his pain. Before the rabies, he was a good, loving dog. The whole time, I thought about my own family's dogs while reading his parts.
King has a way of getting into the characters' heads like few authors I know of can. Men, women, children, animals... there doesn't seem to be any POV he can't write. He's descriptive without being overly so, and he layers details that will come to affect the plot well. What amazes me the most is the fact that when King wrote this book, he was doing heavy drugs and alcohol - to the point that he barely remembers writing it at all. Yet, the book isn't badly written in the slightest. I think that this text qualifies for the best thing ever created while on a bender.
I recommend Cujo 100%. It's not a novel for children or for people who already have a phobia of dogs, though. I enjoyed reading it a lot and I'm looking forward to reading more of Stephen King's works. I have a copy of Different Seasons that I'll begin soon.
Also, I've watched the movie as well, and it's a very good adaptation. There's one major change in it at the end, but I rather like it.
This book I've borrowed from my friend Gwen, who also enjoys cross stitching. In it are guides to make stitching samplers that read things such as "Fuck the dumb shit," "Happy Fucking Holidays," "Bite Me," "This Place Sucks," "Get Lost!," and "Get a Life." I'm going to start on some as soon as I finish another large stitching project I've been working on.
Another one from Gwen. This one has wonderfully dark and funny patterns that I also want to stitch soon. Lizzie Borden pillows, Day of the Dead skulls, poisonous flowers, and more. This and the other stitching book really are for any cross stitcher who's tired of teddy bear and flower samplers.
That's all for now.
Random Quote:
"It would prehaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog." - Stephen King, at the end of Cujo.