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Jul. 3rd, 2002 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cherryI'm baaaaaack. Miss me?
No? Didn't think so.
Okay. Now that that's cleared up... You people write too bloody much. ::G:: I still have a couple of pages to sort through, and I missed most of the things I'd have liked to comment on, or they've gotten so many replies that my wading in at this point would be kind of ridiculous.
Went up to the lake for the Canada Day long weekend, and a bit more. Was the only person who actually went in the water because my brother can barely swim a stroke, my mom and dad hate the water, and my sister is always afraid of wrecking her hair and makeup.
I've got my summer reading list now. I've read 'Animal Farm', because it only took about an hour. I was hoping for a nice story about animals taking over a farm and learning to work together.
Well. I shouldn't have expected that from an AP English course, should I? It's about dictatorship, willful blindness, and pigs who learn to walk on their hind legs (whose leader is a boar ever so subtly named 'Napoleon'). The ending, which is supposed to have shock value, is woefully apparent from quite a ways back.
Not that it's not a good book. It is. It's very well written, and there's a reason it's a classic. It's just not my cup of tea.
No? Didn't think so.
Okay. Now that that's cleared up... You people write too bloody much. ::G:: I still have a couple of pages to sort through, and I missed most of the things I'd have liked to comment on, or they've gotten so many replies that my wading in at this point would be kind of ridiculous.
Went up to the lake for the Canada Day long weekend, and a bit more. Was the only person who actually went in the water because my brother can barely swim a stroke, my mom and dad hate the water, and my sister is always afraid of wrecking her hair and makeup.
I've got my summer reading list now. I've read 'Animal Farm', because it only took about an hour. I was hoping for a nice story about animals taking over a farm and learning to work together.
Well. I shouldn't have expected that from an AP English course, should I? It's about dictatorship, willful blindness, and pigs who learn to walk on their hind legs (whose leader is a boar ever so subtly named 'Napoleon'). The ending, which is supposed to have shock value, is woefully apparent from quite a ways back.
Not that it's not a good book. It is. It's very well written, and there's a reason it's a classic. It's just not my cup of tea.
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Date: 2002-07-05 08:53 pm (UTC)Hmm. As I said, I can appreciate the story on its merits, it's just not the kind I usually enjoy. I've been meaning to pick up 1984 for comparison purposes, though.
You might try Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury if you want a better-written sort of dystopia. But if you want a story of animals working together to improve things on a farm and getting into some hairy adventures, try the Freddy the Pig books, which I doted on in my childhood. They're pretty darned good, even if they are in the children's section.
Gah... You know, I think I tried to read that once. Fahrenheit 421, that is. But it was many years ago, which for me means back in elementary, I just could get into it. I'll have to give it another shot. And I've never yet turned down a book just because it was in the children's section. I'm odd that way. ::G::
Thanks.