what's wrong with this site?!
i cannot properly lay out an article. i've been dying to brag about my beijing experience, but i've been encountering this problem for weeks now. boohoo!
anyway, to update on what i've been doing lately:
1. finished reading ayn rand's "we the living". it is as depressing as any depressing novel can get. i loved her "atlas shrugged". it was the most memorable book i've read - 6 months to finish. and we the living is the sequel. and the guy's name there is the same name as my present crush. kilig to the max. feeling ko ako si kira. bwaha!
2. finished reading murakami's "norwegian wood", the fifth novel from this japanese author that i've come across. being a beatles fan, i came to appreciate the novel. but it still pales in comparison with sputnik sweetheart and kafka on the shore.
3. the mooch bar incident. i don't have to elaborate on this occurence. but many firsts for me this night. sa aming apat na lang un. pero alam naman naming meron kaming ibang pinagsabihan. harhar.
4. watched the german film "lives of others". it's the winner of the recently concluded oscars as the best foreign film. i used to hate german films since they're all about poverty and hopelessness. but this movie is an exception and definitely one of my favorite european films.
5. magsugal ng tong-its sa hong kong. haha, buti na lang nanalo.
come on blogspot, fix yourself! i really want to write about beijing.
6 comments:
hay. did you know that i've been trying to finish reading the fountainhead for like, 2 years now? don't get me wrong, i absolutely love the book (i love howard roark and dominque francon!), though i always manage to get interrupted by something during the course of my reading, and so i've had to start over several times now. my copy of atlas shrugged is in pinas and still unopened and covered in plastic, i believe.
haha! you're worse pala nins!
atlas took me six months of self-convincing that i could be serious enough to attempt reading it and another six months to actually finish. whew!
i picked a nick hornby just to change the mood for once since he's known for being an advocate of the male version of chic lit (whatever you call it). it's entitled "a long way down".
and boy, i was so wrong! it was another depressing plot with four people who accidentally met on a rooftop and were planning on committing suicide.
sa susunod pagtyatyagaan ko na lang ung book ni paris hilton. haha! jk.
hehe. i bought a long way down a few weeks ago (actually it came "free" with my copy of freakonomics and the world is flat...there was a 3 for 2 promo. anyway, just as an aside, books are scandalously expensive here). haven't read it yet though, and with the inordinate amount of readings i have for this semester, i'm pretty sure i wouldn't get to start reading it anytime soon.
anyway, nick hornby still remains as one of my favorite authors of all time. high fidelity changed my life in many respects. plus, he loves music as much as i do.
i wrote this a couple of years ago, as a paean to high fidelity and nick hornby->http://peyups.com/article.khtml?sid=1920
another nick hornby fan here. i LOVED "about a boy." i would laugh loudly even if im in the tram when i turn the pages. definitely one of my top feel good stories.
as for high fidelity, i read the book 3 years after i watched the movie adaptation. i loved the movie, but i couldn't appreciate the novel. maybe i was too engrossed with the fast paced story of about a boy that i couldn't understand rob gordon's idleness. but i can somehow relate to this character since i base my life in songs, as if songwriters fully understand what im going through.
read "a long way down". i have finished one third of the book and im enjoying it so far. you can still feel hornby's humor that you always loved. it just happened to have two more female protagonists.
books here are ridiculously expensive as well. i only borrow from the public libraries.
after hornby, i'll read fitzgerald's great gatsby. any feedback?
btw, goodluck on your readings!
i first read the great gatsby back in hs (like you, i used to borrow a lot from our lib hehe), and back then i was so pissed at how it ended (para kasing tagalog movie). last year i decided to buy myself a copy and i re-read it. well, i still am not crazy over the book nor its ending, but nevertheless i really loved gatsby's character ('ol sport!) and i began to see him in a different light. i can relate more to him now as an adult, especially at this point in my life where i am at my loneliest.
if you end up liking the great gatsby, try to pick up this side of paradise. i hear that fitzgerald's other stuff are great as well, but thus far i've only read two of his books.
I'll read Great Gatsby then. Maybe I am now mature enough to appreciate him. Thanks for the feedback! I'll let you know what I think about it once I finish it and Hornby doesn't convince me to kill myself.
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