It's always been books, hasn't it?
Dec. 30th, 2003 01:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7When I was at Grady, in my 9th or 10th grade English class, we had Fridays free to read whatever we liked. We could either bring a book, or pick one off of the shelves. One Friday, i forgot a book, and Anne Rice's Lasher was there. No one knew whose it was, nor where it came from. So i read it. It was pretty good, i thought. Demons, possessions, &c. Two weeks later, it was gone. *shrug* Simply something that Struck me... earlier today. Or yesterday.
Something that did fully hit me, yesterday, was the recurrence of Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, on bookstore shelves, in both hardback, and paperback. A Fair book, but not excellent, in my opinion. Very interesting ideas, and seems, in fact, like he placed the narrative of the book around the individual ideas, rather than weaving it all together, into a whole. His new book, on the other hand, is supposed to be much better. Angels & Demons is about many many things; conspiracies, the Illuminati, the Vatican, Science, Anti-Matter, Creation, and so on. The problem is that he presents them, ties them together tennuously, and then leaves it, thinking it will hold. And it does, until nearish the end... Hell, read it yourself. Still some very neat things in there.
I only mention it, because it struck me as odd, and because i'm noting lots of things like that, recently. 19, 17, and and the fact that it's not the Numbers that matter. "It's the meaning. The Syntax. What's between the numbers." And so on...
Later...
Something that did fully hit me, yesterday, was the recurrence of Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, on bookstore shelves, in both hardback, and paperback. A Fair book, but not excellent, in my opinion. Very interesting ideas, and seems, in fact, like he placed the narrative of the book around the individual ideas, rather than weaving it all together, into a whole. His new book, on the other hand, is supposed to be much better. Angels & Demons is about many many things; conspiracies, the Illuminati, the Vatican, Science, Anti-Matter, Creation, and so on. The problem is that he presents them, ties them together tennuously, and then leaves it, thinking it will hold. And it does, until nearish the end... Hell, read it yourself. Still some very neat things in there.
I only mention it, because it struck me as odd, and because i'm noting lots of things like that, recently. 19, 17, and and the fact that it's not the Numbers that matter. "It's the meaning. The Syntax. What's between the numbers." And so on...
Later...
