Comments on: The Lovely Bones, a book report by Miguel

By: pat

pat — Tue, 03 Sep 2002 09:55:59 +0000

When I clicked on that amazon link and read the first sentence of the description, my reaction was “no way.” I have the same reaction to that as I do to horror movies in general — I just don’t want to know.

Which is pretty weak, I suppose. But lately all I can handle is science fiction, which is actually quite bizarre for me, considering that until the last few months I’ve never really read fiction at all.

I too, however, am susceptible to the every-book-is-life-changing thing — “No, seriously, I’m not kidding, this book about genetically altered butterflies in Indonesia — it will change your understanding of what it means to be human! I swear!”

Then later I feel sort of dumb. Cuz like, good book and all, but sheesh.

It is somewhat odd that this comment is longer than any of my posts in the last three months.

(sorry, heh)

By: tasha

tasha — Tue, 03 Sep 2002 05:14:57 +0000

i haven’t heard of it, but now i want to read it. i am in that stage where most works of fiction contain a life-changing message. but i had to stop reading so much fiction because too much life-changing wears one out after awhile. now i stick to scientific works more or less. and little house on the prairie.

By: D

Mon, 02 Sep 2002 20:43:02 +0000

After I read Fight Club I thought I had a grasp on a bigger idea of how things should be, how we should value what is really important in life rather than the materialistic… and eh, I lost it. Too much bare-knuckle fighting in dingy bar basements.