Scarlett Johansson in A Love Song for Bobby Long
I find as I’m sitting here listening to my eloquent Biochemistry professor drone on about thiohemiacetal intermediates, that perhaps I may have chosen the wrong path in life. How did I, the kid who consumed books at such alarming rate that I got kicked out of the slow reading group (note to self: determine how I ended up in that slow reading group in the first place…perhaps this was my first “stick it to the man” demonstration?…more on this later) end up in the Sciences? Maybe I’m a glutton for punishment since it is my fault I’m here in the first place, but honestly anything with “organic” and “chemistry” or “phosphorylation” in it makes me want to squirm out of here and go spend an hour in Barnes and Noble.
Anyone else stoked on the Daniel Craig, American version of this film coming out?
If you haven’t yet grabbed the book, get ON that. While a lot of the reviews and synopsis of the books as a series indicate that it is a strongly feminist theme-driven trilogy, it surprisingly has a well developed and detailed mystery plot with a lot of focus initially on one of the main (male) characters, Mikael Blomkvist. While it is by no means Charles Dickens (aka: a heavy read), it is surprisingly an advanced read, but with just enough flurry of action that you feel as though you are carried along for the ride, rather than working for your information and connections made throughout the intricate story line. I will say though, the character of Lisbeth Salander is not the feminine heroine for the faint of heart. She is highly moral, though her method of protecting those moral beliefs will rub many the wrong way. In her own way, she’s extremely badass, though not the type of character one would wish to trade places with.
So, go pick up the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and if you haven’t enjoyed the heck out of reading a good book in a long time, then trust me: this is the perfect book to break the dry spell.
Just thought I’d rep the 99%.
Saw them out front of the Statehouse this week and brushed up on recent events involving Occupy Wall Street. We’ve been long overdue for a revolution. I sincerely hope that this one, which I believe represents an accurate representation of American frustration with the goings ons of late in everything from corporate bailouts to the capitalist-like inefficiency of our health care system, will be one that has a positive outcome. In addition, the protesters address the ever growing concern many have had about the declining role of the Presidency and it’s diminished capacity to exhibit the kind of effectual change demanded by the American people.
So, I broke down and finally read this one, even though I really didn’t want to.
Pluses? Very few….the majority of the length of this novel is due to the verbal hammering away of the central theme over and over and over and over and over….and over. As if I’m not at at all intelligent. *yawn* ethical egoism, blah blah blah, selfishness for rational reasons, blah blah blah. The few parts that were actually enjoyable to me were, of course, the parts that were immensely insufferable to my super-ultra conservative counterpart. However, we tried not to harshly judge one another’s opinion of the book.
Verdict: Worth the read if you want to be in “in the know” about one of the books that has been more recently popularized. The character development makes the book bearable when trying to plow through all of the poorly rationalized selfishness.
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