OH MY LANDS why is this book considered anything more than a steaming pile of garbage?
“Huck Finn� is the kind of story where the narrator tells you whOH MY LANDS why is this book considered anything more than a steaming pile of garbage?
“Huck Finn� is the kind of story where the narrator tells you what’s going to happen, then tells you what happens, then has other characters tell you what happens. The latter part would have worked well.
We get story after story after story after story after story about Huck and escaped slave Jim, their many successful aversions of capture and death, ass well as their just-as-many tricks making people think they have been killed and/or mistaken for ghosts.
Throw in some new characters here and there every 50-70 pages or so, and rearrange the same hogwash yada yada yada. Then you end up with a mind-numbingly dull/needlessly complicated escape plan set by Tom Sawyer and 1,000 hours later ~whoopsadaisies~ Jim was free THE WHOLE TIME.
So, it’s boring, too long and the equivalent of a dream story. Plus racist.
Blah blah blah I get that it’s set in the 1840s, captures the vernacular and mindset of the time; I get the symbolism of the raft and the river and the role reversals and all that shit. Yeah, a river can meander and drift JUST LIKE THIS STUPID BOOK DOES � ya know another thing about rivers? Y’ALL CAN DROWN IN THEM IF YOU’RE PULLED DOWN BY ANY NUMBER OF THINGS.
Looky here, if it was at least 100 pages shorter and the same “adventures� weren’t rinsed and repeated with slightly different supporting characters or similar backward river town settings, maybe I wouldn’t feel such unbridled disgust for this for-some-reason beloved book. But those last 70-80 pages are just bad, bad, bad � ...more
Ed Zwick’s “Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions� names names and gives plenty of juicy behind-the-scenes Hollywood insights. While often overstuffed withEd Zwick’s “Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions� names names and gives plenty of juicy behind-the-scenes Hollywood insights. While often overstuffed with faux-poetic detail, there’s real meat on the bone for better understanding modern film directing, connecting with actors and confirming that Harvey Weinstein is a monster....more
This is so good. Connie Chung writes an earnest, revealing memoir that covers everything from her upbringing � her family’s journey from China to the This is so good. Connie Chung writes an earnest, revealing memoir that covers everything from her upbringing � her family’s journey from China to the United States is fascinating � to retirement and her personal understanding of her legacy.
Highlighting her series of “firsts� in a groundbreaking career, she also provides plenty of insight into working in TV news during the height of the medium’s importance.
She also speaks frankly about racism and sexism in her then male-dominated field, and what she did to “go along to get along� just to be taken seriously � and how, unfortunately, her long hours, preparation and dedication to deliver quality programming were not enough.
There’s also tons of gab in here, too � namely, behind the scenes drama with Dan Rather that she couldn’t avoid, and the same with Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters that she did. (Honestly, her stories about Rather are v satisfying.)
I remember seeing Connie Chung on broadcasts (e.g., her interview with Gary Condit) though so much of her career highlights were before I was really paying attention � I am so glad YouTube has many of her clips and appearances. You’ll likely revisit many of them along the journey.
That said, it is somewhat shocking to understand how some of her key moments and biggest ratings came from stories she did not want to do � and/or was not proud of. It’s one thing to hear her POV on such things, though to hear her talk about why (and how that measures up to how she was treated and assigned stories) is to have a broader understanding of how it all played into her overall story, struggles and triumphs from a career in broadcast.
Finally, it is touching to hear her talk about her career influences, her long relationship with Maury Povich and the legacy she has had on Chinese-American families....more
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