Still here
Sep. 25th, 2001 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
decemberthirtyWell, I'm still working on -Sometimes a Great Notion-. It's taking me a rather long time to get through it, but that's partly because I was sick most of last week, and not really able to concentrate on much of anything.
Which is a shame, because it's a great book. My father told me that it had been made into a movie, a fact that I find very interesting. It's the kind of book that seems like it would be too big for a movie, too big for the stage, almost too big for anything but Oregon forests where it's set. One of the amazing things about the book is that Kesey has created a back-story for every single character that he introduces, and that they are all treated as equally complex and important, even if the character might be considered peripheral to the story. The thing is, there are no characters that are peripheral to this story. It's the story of a town, and therefore the feelings and perceptions of everyone in the town are part of it. And everyone in the book is so complex... There are no good and bad characters, because it's too complicated for that.
Hmmm. Kind of like life.
It's a good book.
Which is a shame, because it's a great book. My father told me that it had been made into a movie, a fact that I find very interesting. It's the kind of book that seems like it would be too big for a movie, too big for the stage, almost too big for anything but Oregon forests where it's set. One of the amazing things about the book is that Kesey has created a back-story for every single character that he introduces, and that they are all treated as equally complex and important, even if the character might be considered peripheral to the story. The thing is, there are no characters that are peripheral to this story. It's the story of a town, and therefore the feelings and perceptions of everyone in the town are part of it. And everyone in the book is so complex... There are no good and bad characters, because it's too complicated for that.
Hmmm. Kind of like life.
It's a good book.
