Steinbeck. When I catch you Steinbeck. What can even be said about this book? Even Steinbeck said it. This is the first book. And I agree. This is a onSteinbeck. When I catch you Steinbeck. What can even be said about this book? Even Steinbeck said it. This is the first book. And I agree. This is a one of a kind book. It's a book that makes me want to write something half as good. It made me love places, it made me love people. It is a story about love, about being loved, about not knowing if you are loved and what you decide to do about it. Everything about this was absolutely perfect. Even stupid Cathy. God I hate you Cathy. It was Lee who completely stole the show though, I will never stop thinking about this beautiful, smart, sweet little man, and Sam. DAMN YOU SAM HAMILTON. What a man. This is the biggest man I've read about. Steinbeck really knows how to write characters. This book isn't a story, this is a history. I absolutely did not read a bunch of characters talking to each other, I read about real people growing up and having kids and dying and leaving a legacy. And I read about God and about destiny and about trying to fight the original story. And yes. Maybe we are all the same story, the first story. Maybe we are condemned to repeat the same mistakes over and over again but, like Lee said, we get to decide, we get to choose a different ending. We get to try. ...more
smash. Elkins is always a pleasure to read, this book contains the biggest issues with Art Criticism in our times, and even though this was written 20smash. Elkins is always a pleasure to read, this book contains the biggest issues with Art Criticism in our times, and even though this was written 20 years ago I feel like it still has a lot of power over criticism written today. After giving a small context about how art criticism has evolved, he writes the problems he finds in contemporary criticism, mainly the fact that it doesn't have a clear definition and that it continues to use models from the earliest forms of art criticism, which is obviously, impossible. As art evolves, art criticism should evolve with it and adapt itself to the art it's judging. I learned more from this 86 page book than I did in a full semester taking an Art Criticism class....more
I gotta be honest, the first time I tried reading this, I didn't get it. I would try to read it next to my friends having conversations, or while listI gotta be honest, the first time I tried reading this, I didn't get it. I would try to read it next to my friends having conversations, or while listening to music, or reading three pages every time I had 5 minutes free during my day. That was wrong of me. This book is meant to have your full, complete attention. The second time I tried reading it, that's exactly what I did, I would read this book in complete silence, and boy did I enjoy it ten times more. This book is fucking weird and I loved it, it made me giggle, it made me scrunch up my face in confusion, it made me sad, it made me google World War II facts and I recommend it to everyone. I love the way it explains time travel and the funky little way in which aliens look at us, I love how everyone treats Billy after he says he's been kidnapped by aliens, but most of all, I love the way this story is told. I loved all the time jumps and I really enjoyed the fact that there was no confusion behind time travel, there was no trying to understand it or trying to explain it, it just was. (I also love the way people look at you when you tell them you're reading a Kurt Vonnegut)...more
the pace was super fast but it wasn't really memorable, it felt like it lacked the usual shakespeare drama, i really wanted prospero to kill antonio othe pace was super fast but it wasn't really memorable, it felt like it lacked the usual shakespeare drama, i really wanted prospero to kill antonio or something. i now realize it lacked a SHAKESPEARE character for it to be iconic, it had some great lines and i loved the ship wreck ambiance, tho ...more
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