flippin out
when i was younger i read differently; i was not touched by the celebrity of a book. sure some stories/characters were more intimidating than others, but that was personal. there was none of this sparkling aura of bestsellerness about a book back then. in my world, the author wrote this book for me. especially. i could slip into the story as if there was an invisble place the characters had saved just for me. when i joined them, the story became perfect and functional. i fit like a missing cog.
now more and more i come smack up against a wall. me, with all my preconceived notions and prehatched weariness, just can not get between the characters no more. when they take a bend, they have to drag me along like an unweildy punctuation mark.
so i'm back to reading the old favourites, the ones that worked for me. pratchett, ishiguro, wodehouse and back again. should i be worried that they are all british?
now more and more i come smack up against a wall. me, with all my preconceived notions and prehatched weariness, just can not get between the characters no more. when they take a bend, they have to drag me along like an unweildy punctuation mark.
so i'm back to reading the old favourites, the ones that worked for me. pratchett, ishiguro, wodehouse and back again. should i be worried that they are all british?
4 Comments:
Glad you're writing again. :)
o yes o yes. i'm scarily all agatha christie this season.
ever and anon: me too, so glad.
d: don't the brits just rule? (don't say it)
i missed the whole christie thing, but am now tempted to read, if not all her books, then at least the one in which the creepy old woman goes up to strangers and says, was it your poor child?
since we're at it, and i feel trivial...the bit where the creepy old woman goes up to strangers and says "was it your poor child who was buried behind the fireplace?" apparently actually happened to christie on one of her trips abroad. hm.
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