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Jun. 9th, 2011 02:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupI keep writing these entries about how I am crazy right now, and all the things that are making me crazy, but then they sound weird and I privatelock them instead of posting them. Point being I am kind of bonkers right now but I'll get over it.
I just finished reading The River King by Alice Hoffman, and while I'd like to review it because that's how I document the reading I've done in the year, I don't think I'm up to the task. On the one hand it is a pretty good example of magical realism, and I read it to the end because I did want to know What Happened Next. But on the other hand there's not a single likeable person in the book except for the town pharmacist, who I think gets about eight lines in the whole thing. Lack of exposure is probably the reason he's likeable. Everyone else is either an asshole or a self-destructive twit. Or dead. Or some combination of the three.
Also, getting expelled from high school is not just retribution for committing murder. If you're going to commit a crime to exact revenge on a murderer, it might as well be worthwhile revenge.
Anyway, thus concludes my dissertation on 1. I am crazy and 2. The River King was a very hard book.
I just finished reading The River King by Alice Hoffman, and while I'd like to review it because that's how I document the reading I've done in the year, I don't think I'm up to the task. On the one hand it is a pretty good example of magical realism, and I read it to the end because I did want to know What Happened Next. But on the other hand there's not a single likeable person in the book except for the town pharmacist, who I think gets about eight lines in the whole thing. Lack of exposure is probably the reason he's likeable. Everyone else is either an asshole or a self-destructive twit. Or dead. Or some combination of the three.
Also, getting expelled from high school is not just retribution for committing murder. If you're going to commit a crime to exact revenge on a murderer, it might as well be worthwhile revenge.
Anyway, thus concludes my dissertation on 1. I am crazy and 2. The River King was a very hard book.
