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Life Before Man
Margaret Atwood
Read Sept 5, 2010
I really enjoy Margaret Atwood books... they are hard to catagorize, but always very interesting. This one written in 1979 revolves around a couple Nate & Elizabeth. Elizabeth is in a deep depression as her lover Chris has just committed suicide. From here we delve deeper into their lives, their childhood and in time Nate develops a relationship with Lesje a co-worker of Elizabeth's.
The story is not so much about what happens is it is about learning about the characters and what drives them, what motivates them to go on.
Monday, September 06, 2010
Catcher In The Rye (3)
Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Read 8/25/10
I have not been reading much and came across an article on an entertainment site that listed the best opening lines from books... and this was one of them, so I got a copy of it and read it. This is suppose to be a banned book, although from todays perspective there is not much offensive in it... perhaps that was different in the late 40s when it was written.
It is basically the story of a person who is going insane.. it is told after the fact, but that isnt always obvious. The person becomes more and more detached from everything around him and his life, tormented by the death of his younger brother and his inability to do well in school and please his parents he eventually goes off the rails.
J.D. Salinger
Read 8/25/10
I have not been reading much and came across an article on an entertainment site that listed the best opening lines from books... and this was one of them, so I got a copy of it and read it. This is suppose to be a banned book, although from todays perspective there is not much offensive in it... perhaps that was different in the late 40s when it was written.
It is basically the story of a person who is going insane.. it is told after the fact, but that isnt always obvious. The person becomes more and more detached from everything around him and his life, tormented by the death of his younger brother and his inability to do well in school and please his parents he eventually goes off the rails.
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