Having nothing better to do...

[willow_25]

I'm just gonna continue to post my opinions about books, and possibly random other things.

So I finished 'heartbreaking, etc...', see yesterday, by David Eggars last night, and I was not entirely pleased.  It just kind of...Ends.  For no reason, with no resolution.  Which, I guess is kind of the point of the book, that so often things just happen and make no sense no matter how we try to string them into some kind of order.  It still made me unhappy, though.

Started a book called "Citizen Tom Paine" this morning, about the author of the Revolutionary War pamphlet "Common Sense" (for those having trouble placing the name).  So far, it is very good; visceral, with details that bring the era to life.  The typeface is very awesome, which is not the kind of thing I normally notice in a book, but I noticed it in this one.  The type is done to mimic that of the 1700's, which is really a neat little effect.

I started working on another neglected project during Bosslady's absence, to give myself something to do.  Waiting for her boss to get back to me with anwers to questions she usually answers slows the process down, unfortunately. 

And, that's all I've got at the moment.  I meant to get back into fic writing, and I swear I am not giving it up for good, but right now I don't have the documents at work and I'm just too tired by the time I get home.  If I remember over the weekend, I want to try getting my documents off of the laptop that's no longer a laptop and into my office computer, so I can work on them. 

Comments

David Eggars

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Nyah, I don't buy it -- I want an ending. A story that gives you a beginning should give you an ending, some kind of ending -- a resolution of a sort. Having a story just stop reminds me of the modern "art" where the "artist" puts a blank canvas up and tells you he's challenging the viewer's expectations.

Don't challenge me -- give me some frakking art!