I am fifty pages from the end of Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman and - not being in the best of moods this month - I cannot bring myself to finish it. I read five pages or a section, want to fling the book across the room and then I just stop reading instead of whipping myself into a frenzy.
Yes, it's that bad.
Alternatively, I want to do a Vanessa Place-lite* and cherrypick the egregious bits and blog or tweet them, one hot mess at a time. I mean, there's an art project in there, right? One that will get me attention and a place on some important jury?
I may write about it but I doubt it. There's nothing others haven't said before and I don't really have anything to add except maybe notice in public that it's the money the book was always going to make that made this a "good" idea, in a year such as 2015 has been.
You should go listen to Prince's Baltimore instead as antidote.
Oh, also - I happened to turn the TV on and watched to the grim and bitter end the ridiculousness that is Joel Schumacher's A Time to Kill. I mean, it has a star cast but what are you going to do about the cliches, the white saviourness and the background score? Just how clueless are these guys?
I'm done ranting. I have a column to write and friends to meet and cats to feed. Oh yes, I must do a post about them.
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* I'm making the Gone with the Wind comparison deliberately, seeing as how much the grown-up Scout, or Jean Louise as she is now known, shares with the honourable Ashley Wilkes, going all Götterdämmerung on Maycomb county.
Yes, it's that bad.
Alternatively, I want to do a Vanessa Place-lite* and cherrypick the egregious bits and blog or tweet them, one hot mess at a time. I mean, there's an art project in there, right? One that will get me attention and a place on some important jury?
I may write about it but I doubt it. There's nothing others haven't said before and I don't really have anything to add except maybe notice in public that it's the money the book was always going to make that made this a "good" idea, in a year such as 2015 has been.
You should go listen to Prince's Baltimore instead as antidote.
Oh, also - I happened to turn the TV on and watched to the grim and bitter end the ridiculousness that is Joel Schumacher's A Time to Kill. I mean, it has a star cast but what are you going to do about the cliches, the white saviourness and the background score? Just how clueless are these guys?
I'm done ranting. I have a column to write and friends to meet and cats to feed. Oh yes, I must do a post about them.
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* I'm making the Gone with the Wind comparison deliberately, seeing as how much the grown-up Scout, or Jean Louise as she is now known, shares with the honourable Ashley Wilkes, going all Götterdämmerung on Maycomb county.
4 comments:
Hi Priti,
Not publishing your comment because of personal details in it. I'm sorry about that - just seeing this and it will be too late for you. Hope you found someone else.
S
Go Set A Watchman was really strange. Since I bought and read it on Kindle, flinging it away in disgust was not a viable option!
Dipali: Good to hear from you! Yes, you don't want to waste an entire kindle on that book. We need to find an alternate therapy for infuriating books in their e-versions, no?
Absolutely!!!!!
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