I just want to have a place to write down the geniral thoughts i have had on some of the books i am reading or have read. i am also going to make a seporate place for me to review anime related stuff. i didnt want to mention it on the home page because anime is cringe and wierd and i am afraid people will judge me on the internet. my reading habits are all over the place because i have to juggle it between all of the reaserch papers that i have to read for school as well.
!!!!!SPOILER WARNING!!!!!
i finished this book recently, it is easily one of my favorite books of all time. It is worded in a way that makes you feel like you are hearing from a real person. The charicters feels so genuine and like real real people. its nothing like any other Roald Dahl book out there, i have heard that his biography is quite intence but i dont think it is like this. It is a collection of short stories based on Dahl's expirences in the airforce during world war 2. i 100% recomend everybody who can to read the book. it is an easy read and you can just read each story at a time, they are on average 10 pages long.
a few chapters stuck out to me specifically "katina" i was flying to a friends wedding early in the morning and i had stated it late the night before so i only got through the first few chapters before i had to sleep. i spent every chance i got at the airport reading that chapter. It is by far the longest and for good reason. even though it is a book i have such a clear image of that little girl screaming at the plains. (ngl, i pictured her as asuka as a child)
The next chapter that i really enjoyed was "Beware of the dog" speciffically the opening. i feel like in that situation, with the adrenilan pumping and the terable coping mechanisms of men at the time, i would have done the same. i always make jokes to avoid the truth, especially when it hurts. I even made the joke to my friend when i started going to therapy that i wouldnt be funny any more. i also like the way that they are calling the facist a dog. you know coz like dog whistles and stuff. crazy that we still use similar terminology to what they used in 1946, which was when the book was published.
last chapter thar realy stuck out to me was the last chapter of the book "Someone like you" (kind of sounds like an adventure time thing) I think it captures the futility of war in such a different perspective, the way they have to drink to talk about their problems and how they keep projecting their feelings towards their expirences onto the drinks. it is such a good way to depict how it ruines the pshychi.
This book will make you cry.
not me tho i didnt cry. coz i am a man and i dont have feelings. (ngl it made me feel worse for not crying) on the good side though it made me get closer to the older people in my life who i care about. It really opend my eyes about what you can do for the people who you care about and how you can make them feel valued. It is vital for somebody in the integraty vs dispare part of their life to feel like they left a legacy which will carry on. i think that any book which helps get a new perspective on your life is a must read and better than any self help book availabe. (i dont like self help books)
I read this book a few months ago but when i picked it started reading it i finished it by the next day. which isnt normal for me, i am dyslexic and the last book i read took me 6 months to get through, granted it was the iliad. The book just made me feel something, something which was strong, which most books and movies dont do for me. if you are like me and you dont realy understand how your feelings work then i recomend this book, it helped me become aware of how they apreared and how i could recognise them because you know what feelings are normal in a sad book. spoiler its sadness and greif and a few other sad type feelings.
Imagen being one of the guys who passed a story down for 1000 years just for some simpsons charicter to steal all the credit. no shot homer made that story up. I read it because i wanted to read the odssey and i figured i may as well be a real nerd and get the prelude. i am half way though the odssey and i think the iliad is better. idk why the odssey is so much more popular.
I read the song of achilies before so i was shiping Achilies and Patroclus the entire time. it is cannon to me. you mean to tell me that Patroclus just pours the whine when guests are there AND Achiles plays the Lyre to him on his own? they are dating 100% confirmed.
The part of this book that i really enjoyed is how your perception of who the the good guys are changes a lot. most significantly Achilies i started the book with a crush on him but after patroclus dies, or even when he goes into battle, Achilies actions are less and less justified to me. like especially how he kills Hector and then drags him around Troy. he pretty much cheated in that fight. like how can you get the help from a god like that. Just get the spear back? thats crazy unfair. Hector did not desurve that fate.
I kind of liked Hector and his relationship with his family. the way his wife doesnt want him to fight but he still goes, the way his son is afraid of his helmet for so many reasons because the flashes are bright, he no longer recognises his father and he is afraid of the doom his father will soon face. if you hadnt figured it out yet i dont like war.
My favorite charicter is Diomedies though. for a lot of reasons. mainly, he just like me fr, the way he acts when being woken up, just acting like he wasnt sleeping, i do the exact same thing. Secondly, the way he said "I will go but not alone" shows how he is afraid and makes him kind of cute. finnaly, i just think he is an og gangsta cool as mf. he desurves more clout.