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decemberthirty) wrote2001-09-14 05:02 am
decemberthirty) wrote2001-09-14 05:02 am
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Continuation
So is it safe to go back to simply reading and writing about what I read again? It seems hard to know how and when to resume real life...
But, putting that aside and stoically resolving to resume real life, I will continue. I finished -Rabbit, Run- which I believe was the last book I mentioned in this journal. It was a very well-crafted book. The protagonist (I was going to call him the hero, but anyone who has read the book will realize that he's much more of an anti-hero than he is a hero) spends most of the book feeling unnerved and at loose ends, and Updike was able to create a situation in which I wound up feeling ill at ease myself while reading the book. I'd be sitting on the train reading on my way home, and only be able to read a few pages at a time because I felt so unsettled. I'm very anxious to go on to the rest of the series.
Not having any of the other Rabbit books to hand, however, I'm currently reading Ken Kesey's -Sometimes a Great Notion-. I'm only about 100 pages in, but I have most definitely been grabbed. So far I have found that Kesey's style is far more sophisticated and interesting in this book than in -One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-. He has written quite a tangled family story, and narrates the story in an equally tangled style, with plot lines constantly crossing and interweaving, the past and future endlessly overlapping... In some sort of strange way it reminds me a little of -The Sound and the Fury-.
But, putting that aside and stoically resolving to resume real life, I will continue. I finished -Rabbit, Run- which I believe was the last book I mentioned in this journal. It was a very well-crafted book. The protagonist (I was going to call him the hero, but anyone who has read the book will realize that he's much more of an anti-hero than he is a hero) spends most of the book feeling unnerved and at loose ends, and Updike was able to create a situation in which I wound up feeling ill at ease myself while reading the book. I'd be sitting on the train reading on my way home, and only be able to read a few pages at a time because I felt so unsettled. I'm very anxious to go on to the rest of the series.
Not having any of the other Rabbit books to hand, however, I'm currently reading Ken Kesey's -Sometimes a Great Notion-. I'm only about 100 pages in, but I have most definitely been grabbed. So far I have found that Kesey's style is far more sophisticated and interesting in this book than in -One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-. He has written quite a tangled family story, and narrates the story in an equally tangled style, with plot lines constantly crossing and interweaving, the past and future endlessly overlapping... In some sort of strange way it reminds me a little of -The Sound and the Fury-.