Lit and Spew
So I finished Heart of Darkness for the third time and wrote an essay on it. Its on my FB note and I will repost into LJ in a day or two. Next up in the line is Pilgram's Progress. Now the first part (Pilgram's Progress) I've read a good 7 or 8 times between mid high school and present time. I absolutely LOVE that book. The second part (usually refered to as either Christina's Progress or Part 2) I've only read once.
So why do I love classic lit? Quite simply its the wording and the fact that there is a lot to dig through to find points, morals, the base, etc. In Heart of Darkness it was especially hard due to the contradictorary nature of Conrad's writings. And that is what I think we have lost with alot of modern writers. Sometimes I'll read a book and its just like a person is vomiting all over the page and calling themselves an author. I've started to seperate books into two groups. Lit and Popular Fiction. In the Lit catagory I'd have Ann Rice, Stephen King, the guy who wrote "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", Orson Scott Card, stuff like that. In Popular fiction I'd put people like John Saul, J.D. Robb, Dean Koontz. I'm not saying ALL Popular Fiction is spew, just some of it. Popular fiction is great for me to read when I am sick and cant pay attention well. Lit is for me to read when I want my mind stimulated. Sometimes I'll read King when I'm sick but that because I pretty much know all his books up til 2006 by heart.
<---- Is big King fan... listens to his radio station online and subscribes to his website. O_o
Speaking of King he wrote another Dark Tower book, to be released in 2012. I didnt think he'd be able to stop those books. Almost every single one of his other books ties into DT in one way or another. Thats one of the reasons I reread his books, to see new connections I missed before.
Anyway off to read Pilgram's Progress Parts 1 and 2.
So why do I love classic lit? Quite simply its the wording and the fact that there is a lot to dig through to find points, morals, the base, etc. In Heart of Darkness it was especially hard due to the contradictorary nature of Conrad's writings. And that is what I think we have lost with alot of modern writers. Sometimes I'll read a book and its just like a person is vomiting all over the page and calling themselves an author. I've started to seperate books into two groups. Lit and Popular Fiction. In the Lit catagory I'd have Ann Rice, Stephen King, the guy who wrote "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", Orson Scott Card, stuff like that. In Popular fiction I'd put people like John Saul, J.D. Robb, Dean Koontz. I'm not saying ALL Popular Fiction is spew, just some of it. Popular fiction is great for me to read when I am sick and cant pay attention well. Lit is for me to read when I want my mind stimulated. Sometimes I'll read King when I'm sick but that because I pretty much know all his books up til 2006 by heart.
<---- Is big King fan... listens to his radio station online and subscribes to his website. O_o
Speaking of King he wrote another Dark Tower book, to be released in 2012. I didnt think he'd be able to stop those books. Almost every single one of his other books ties into DT in one way or another. Thats one of the reasons I reread his books, to see new connections I missed before.
Anyway off to read Pilgram's Progress Parts 1 and 2.