I finally finished reading Vanity Fair.

I had been wanting to read it for a long time and, as it was chosen by one of the book clubs,  I started reading it in December.  And I finished it this month, around the 14th or so. It was  b o r i n g.

Thackeray uses some stereotyped characters to set up a very brilliant satire against "refined" society, that ( Read more... )

"When I saw what I saw, when I saw the senseless, meaningless madness that culminated in the use of human skin to make lampshadows, of human flesh and fat to make soap, when I saw what I saw and watched all this, I asked myself a thousand times: What is the meaning of mankind? Or has it any meaning at all? Is man not, perhaps, simply a haphazard ( Read more... )

I've just seen a chapter of Marmalade Boy, the one in which everybody thinks Miwa and Yuu are going out together. It has made me laugh insanely, though I can't understand why a nearly-seventeen-years-old girl would be amused by jokes and misunderstandings intended for little preteens. It's time to call the psy. .___. I'm so simple sometimes. In ( Read more... )