Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:37:13.000Z
IT'S TIME
latest #24
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:37:21.000Z
to finally catch up on this thing, I mean.
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:37:29.000Z
Blood Meridian: FINISHED
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:37:45.000Z
again, I wouldn't wish it on anyone, but it's one of the most remarkable books I've read
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Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:37:55.000Z
the great American novel if you believe there is and was not anything great about America
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:38:28.000Z
the sheer impact of finding out what the protagonist really felt, _through other people_ and so near the end, was devastating
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:39:01.000Z
This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald: FINISHED
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:39:30.000Z
read this because of the resurgence in interest in his stuff lately (and I'd already read Gatsby)
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:39:54.000Z
it's definitely an early-seeming work and again, not something I'd really recommend, but I found it interesting
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:40:13.000Z
very much autobiographical, and written at a point where he knew fuck all about what to do with himself
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:40:50.000Z
I didn't know anything about the book going in (not even that it did have elements of his own life), which made it more enjoyable I think
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:41:16.000Z
that said it meanders a lot, and if you don't like to hear the Intellectual History of a pretentious protag you probably won't like this
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:42:04.000Z
yet in spite of his upper-class affectations and later disillusions it captures that quintessential something, a vibrancy and futility that's almost universal to the college experience
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:42:20.000Z
a sort of "oh god this is so true" and "what the hell was wrong with us" all at once
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:43:20.000Z
there's no satisfactory conclusion, and that's honest I think
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:44:03.000Z
Against the Grain (A Rebours) by Joris-Karl Huysmans: IN PROGRESS
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:44:24.000Z
picked this up because it was "the book that corrupted Dorian Gray" which I'm revisiting now as well
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:45:01.000Z
it's an interesting contrast to the previous book because both are seemingly plotless novels about the internal life of a young, disaffected protagonist
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:45:13.000Z
only the fellow in A Rebours is more obviously pathological of course
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:50:46.000Z
so far it's interesting and not even in the trainwreck way
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:50:56.000Z
but I think Dorian got this book all wrong
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:51:15.000Z
nor should he be turning to it in the first place given the life he supposedly wanted to lead
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:54:03.000Z
it details a lifestyle born out of a loathing for reality, humanity, and nature, and even if that was Dorian's state of mind I don't think he was consciously aware of it
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:55:18.000Z
the protag only went for this because he could not deal with anything else, it has no bearing on an extravagant and publicly toxic presence that Dorian was bent on living
Belle Ombre
2013-06-18T05:55:32.000Z
might change my mind as I continue though
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