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Comment on Booklog: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation by payday loans

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Comment on Booklog: Don Quixote by Nikki

Nikki — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:22:44 +0000

I just started reading Don Quixote, though I’ve wanted to for a long time, and I found these notes helpful in figuring out what’s going on in the story. It’s ironic, and almost funny reading about the whimsical, make-believe adventures of a grown man.

Comment on Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year by sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:22:24 +0000

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Comment on Storylog: “Investigations of a Dog” by Kirsten

Kirsten — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:23:40 +0000

Thanks! I just finished the story- this gives me a grasp on the theme of this previously puzzling story. I think I have alot in common with that little dog, really. This insight was brilliant

Comment on Booklog: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by britt

britt — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:48:23 +0000

I really dont think that the book was that bad. It definitely didnt live up to my expectations and was a bit slow in the first part of it, but some bits were written brilliantly. I especially loved the part where Harry finds the letter from Lily to Sirius and the chapter with Snape’s memories it was so sad! So all you people critisizing it, maybe you should get into the story more instead of focusing on all the little mistakes.

Comment on Booklog: That Yellow Bastard by melvin

melvin — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:28:21 +0000

I am used to the word bastard, so when i look to to the pictures they are so funny.

Comment on Booklog: I and Thou by Car Warranty

Car Warranty — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:28:17 +0000

That looks pretty good, i think i will pick it up on my next stop to the library.

Comment on Booklog: Blood Meridian by Jesse

Jesse — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:18:37 +0000

At Montezuma:

I share your interest in the novel, which you have stated well enough for me not to go into great detail. While I could argue the internal plot/character/theme points all day, what distinguishes McCarthy’s novel is his equivocal use of narration and authorship. Absent from the novel is any kind of reflexive “omniscience” present in so many other modern novels, or the subjective romanticism so prevalent in literature. Even when McCarthy draws attention to his own narration, it is doubled or tripled in meaning and usually he only acts with an ironic kind of agency. Check out John Sepich’s analysis of the book. In my opinion, it’s the most comprehensive–which is saying a lot about a book for which comprehensive analysis is repelled by the book itself.

Comment on Booklog: Blood Meridian by Montezuma

Montezuma — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:24:37 +0000

Wow glad to find someone who tries to read between the lines of this phenomenal book and sees many different interpretations. I definitely agree with it’s “assault on meaning”, leaving it up to the reader to find it out themselves, just as in real life.
Mine?…The judge is a devourer of souls, even a demon incarnate, picking up pieces of history as they ride through the desert, recording it in his ledger as a means for him to retain it as knowledge and then most of the time destroying the evidence, erasing it from the history of the world. This is what separates him from the others, for he wishes to totally dominate everyone and everything, to become “suzerain” of the world.
The ending is the perfect grand finale to such a gory, violent time in America, where for so long the westward expansion was described as a romanticized era. I tend to agree with McCarthy’s view, that it was chaos and a terribly violent chapter, and the violence that lives in man’s nature, from the beginning of time to the present, might always be there below the surface, hand in hand.
The demise of the kid and the way (or lack of) it is shown leaves the reader open to any possibility. Since we have traveled with the kid on his oddyssey, many graphic and heinous crimes are witnessed, and reactions to these crimes by the characters is almost non-existent. With this, the reader comes to expect this pattern. What the reader does not expect is the last few pages of the novel, where the kid disappears from the pages entirely, and the judge is last seen dancing gleefully. This can only be attributed to the judge finally devouring the last humane piece of the kid’s soul that he speaks of, for the kid was the only one who ‘betrayed’ the gang by retaining a shred of humanity. McCarthy leaves it up to the reader to fill in the blanks, in other words, whatever the worst possible thing the reader can think of happening to someone, happens to the kid. Raped? Killed? Both raped and killed? The end for the kid is too awful to speak of, and it isn’t, we are only left with a couple strangers walking in on the aftermath and being completely shocked by it, the first real instance of a reaction to any of the violence in the novel. And thus, as the judge did by devouring so much historical evidence as they ride across the southwest throughout the book and they disappear from the earth, so does the kid. The reader is left to react whatever way they will at this horror, and hopefully, they wish to speak out against such atrocities, so many of which fill our newspapers today. This is an unbelievable masterpiece. I will read it many more times. What are other people’s thoughts?

Comment on Booklog: Blankets by bob

bob — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:15:08 +0000

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