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The Pilgrim's Progress
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Reads like satire, but just... isn't? I feel like it's mocking itself but I really don't think it is?
It's just really hard to take this book seriously. It's incredibly dated, mind-numbingly boring, and obscenely moralizing. This book felt like my entire childhood of nuns making me kneel on the hard marble floor for laughing in chapel on Friday mornings.
I love allegory as much as your mom, but I do like just a tiny bit of subtlety. In Pilgrim's Progress, Allegory comes over to you and she slaps you in the face (see what I did there?). Over and over again. And then she tells you to turn the other cheek.
A summary: a guy named Evangelist helps a guy named (wait for it) Christian, who by the way is married to (wait for it twice) Christiana, find Jesus. He gallivants down the road to meet Jesus and makes new friends, like Faithful and Hopeful. They meet some nefarious people- shockingly, named after vices- who (prepare to be shocked again) meet righteously unhappy ends. Later on, Christiana, who got left behind, makes the same journey with the rest of the fam. The End! Did you enjoy that? Me neither.
I fuck you not, there are characters named Lord Hate-Good, Mrs. Inconsiderate, and Mr. Feeble-Mind. It's like 17th century Clue. It was Mrs. Inconsiderate, in the Valley of Humiliation, with a candle-stick! (How very inconsiderate of her!)
Paradise Lost, it ain't.
It's just really hard to take this book seriously. It's incredibly dated, mind-numbingly boring, and obscenely moralizing. This book felt like my entire childhood of nuns making me kneel on the hard marble floor for laughing in chapel on Friday mornings.
I love allegory as much as your mom, but I do like just a tiny bit of subtlety. In Pilgrim's Progress, Allegory comes over to you and she slaps you in the face (see what I did there?). Over and over again. And then she tells you to turn the other cheek.
A summary: a guy named Evangelist helps a guy named (wait for it) Christian, who by the way is married to (wait for it twice) Christiana, find Jesus. He gallivants down the road to meet Jesus and makes new friends, like Faithful and Hopeful. They meet some nefarious people- shockingly, named after vices- who (prepare to be shocked again) meet righteously unhappy ends. Later on, Christiana, who got left behind, makes the same journey with the rest of the fam. The End! Did you enjoy that? Me neither.
I fuck you not, there are characters named Lord Hate-Good, Mrs. Inconsiderate, and Mr. Feeble-Mind. It's like 17th century Clue. It was Mrs. Inconsiderate, in the Valley of Humiliation, with a candle-stick! (How very inconsiderate of her!)
Paradise Lost, it ain't.
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June 22, 2015
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Jul 17, 2017 05:26PM
Poison tongued review, Annie. I've seen this ranked as the best novel ever written, most likely by those without a pulse.
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Too literal? I thought they were nuanced, clever names, and my friends Satire and Sarcasm agree.
Sorry, my full name is Giant Lame Sense of Humor.
Don't you know Mrs. Inconsiderate? She was next-door-neighbour to Mrs. Lack-of-Imagination in Boring Street, Snore-Away-the-Day-Town.
Wow. I will read this talismanic piece of legend with trepidation
