oh yeah what're you thinking of the austen? cuz like, i read p&p & thought okay, this is cute & involving, i can dig, & then read s&s & went WAIT A MINUTE --- these are all the same characters doing most of the same things! & haven't read anything else of her i don't think.
also for at least a minute there i had my "SWEET RACK M" comment as an update. but yknow. sweet rack?
thanks millions for the "plots were a bit too similar.." because when i say that people either act like i'm an idiot or ignore it, & i'm there like, plz engage in dialogue w/ me world! i am asking something of you! promise i'm not just being a bitch! (refrain 4 lyf!) anyway i heard mansfield was way better so i'll have to hit that sometime. i dig subtlety, i am into development & a slowness to my fire.
i've been trying to use goodreads when i am ready to SAY THINGS about what i'm reading, so of course even some really amazing things don't end up there; jessicahallock.livejournal.com is pretty safe as i update that more. spent weeks working through simone weil's waiting for god, which, after some initial scoffing at a few more ridiculous lines, may be um - one of the most important books i've ever read?, esp. as far as its comprehension in tying together views (for me anyway?) on eastern philosophy, intellectual integrity, the goal of being, work towards the good. this 150 pgs has been taking me SO LONG, m, just plowing steady through
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the arundhati roy was good too but her nonfic? (as oposed to her fiction which i think engages story in a way that really just saves / kills / immortalizes / whatever great thing!) to me feels mostly the same. like, i dig it, but okay we already had this talk. same w/ vandana shiva. not to say it isn't a vital & important & inspiring talk! but we just had it, so i have trouble remembering the works as separate entities, trouble FEELING WAYS about their worth as works. maybe just the nature of collected essays cuz i think this happens w/ zinn & chomsky compilations too, maybe just the nature of accumulated knowledge re: specific problems? should stop expecting endless swigs of epiphany from a well meant to inspire action. revolution @ the computer desk much
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also for at least a minute there i had my "SWEET RACK M" comment as an update. but yknow. sweet rack?
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i've been trying to use goodreads when i am ready to SAY THINGS about what i'm reading, so of course even some really amazing things don't end up there; jessicahallock.livejournal.com is pretty safe as i update that more. spent weeks working through simone weil's waiting for god, which, after some initial scoffing at a few more ridiculous lines, may be um - one of the most important books i've ever read?, esp. as far as its comprehension in tying together views (for me anyway?) on eastern philosophy, intellectual integrity, the goal of being, work towards the good. this 150 pgs has been taking me SO LONG, m, just plowing steady through ( ... )
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