Bought this today. Am hiding in a bar reading this book drinking a beer. 🍺 #sigh
ManyWordsLater These are my favorite moments. 5d
Bought this today. Am hiding in a bar reading this book drinking a beer. 🍺 #sigh
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pickI‘d say 99% of this book is silly foolishness, poking fun at the “bright young things” and the establishment equally, but that last 1%, the final chapter, is pretty grim Chastity‘s fate was unsurprising but still sad, and Adam ends up just as poor and aimlessly as he began. But for 99% of the book it was just the laugh I needed.
so-soDidn't feel quite as sharp as the first volume. Definitely still heavy on the commentary, but it was less about a specific clutch of problems one might first have seen in the late 50s/early 60s and more about bigger questions, some with arguably a more modern origin: Is civilization a good idea? Is it the anthropocentric or capitalistic aspects of the current ideas of civilization which are the problem? Can urban planning and military action 1/?
pickA strange and obscure little book written in the 1920s, about a rural Ohio woman torn between her husband and a lover. As Dawn Powell‘s biographer puts it well, this novel reads as romance fiction but with all the dark and bleak stylization of a Theodore Dreiser story.
so-soThis was a hard book to read and an even harder book to enjoy. It‘s satire that borders on tragedy. I laughed at times, but I‘ve never read characters more lonely. Monk has no community, a strained family life, and is uncomfortable with his identity and society‘s expectations of what kind of man his race makes him. In a fit of anger, he changes his narrative only to discover selling out himself and his culture only enhances his loneliness.
