BOOKS!!
ive been reading alot. and its pretty inspiring, the sort of things that you can take out of a social commentary, or a life of boycot and protest. i finished dharma bums by jack kerouac, and it was amazing. i've always had this urge to just go out and hop trains, or hitchhike, but im always held back by commitments. eventually, i realized my commitment will be my life, and i gotta take care of this before i have to pay taxes, if i pay them at all. i want to live the life of a traveler. i dunno, im getting ahead of myself. but anyway, i love the way kerouac writes. he gives all nature life, skipping around "peeping into his back window" almost scaring him. and how when the clouds disappear when hes on a mountian top the other mountians creep up to him unexpecdedly. it is quite enjoyable to see people living fully, and all that good stuff.
and i started choke by chuck palahniuk yesterday, and im already halfway through. which is a pretty good sign to me. but its about a sex addict, and these different parts of his life, his mom dying, his job with his best friend, and his crazy childhood with his mom. and it gets my heart racing, because of the increcible social commentary. making someone a hero is his fix, as well as his income. he will fake choking to death in a restaruaunt, so one person will step up and become a hero, and make him memorable to them, and they will send checks and birthday cards to their pathetic friend, who would be dead without their help. its really awesome, i dont mean the practice, but it is true. but there are alot of controversial stuff, and as ragan put it, she doesn't know if the book is really good, or if she just wants to see what crazy thing will happen next. and i just figured out that for me its not about what will happen next, and more about the character. this main character, victor, is amazing. he is disgusting, but he is complex, and smart. i like that.
hows that for the first entry in months?
and all this reading and stuff has come from my job at the movie theatre, cause there is nothing to do but read!
YAY!
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maybe ill start putting up books im reading on my livejournal. how does that sound?
and i started choke by chuck palahniuk yesterday, and im already halfway through. which is a pretty good sign to me. but its about a sex addict, and these different parts of his life, his mom dying, his job with his best friend, and his crazy childhood with his mom. and it gets my heart racing, because of the increcible social commentary. making someone a hero is his fix, as well as his income. he will fake choking to death in a restaruaunt, so one person will step up and become a hero, and make him memorable to them, and they will send checks and birthday cards to their pathetic friend, who would be dead without their help. its really awesome, i dont mean the practice, but it is true. but there are alot of controversial stuff, and as ragan put it, she doesn't know if the book is really good, or if she just wants to see what crazy thing will happen next. and i just figured out that for me its not about what will happen next, and more about the character. this main character, victor, is amazing. he is disgusting, but he is complex, and smart. i like that.
hows that for the first entry in months?
and all this reading and stuff has come from my job at the movie theatre, cause there is nothing to do but read!
YAY!
see also: happy
see also: enthusiastic
maybe ill start putting up books im reading on my livejournal. how does that sound?