Another book review!

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


I have mixed feelings. I tried so hard to get into the spirit of the book but i failed each and every time. That's why I forced myself to sit down finish more than half of it in a couple of hours. And I hate it when I have to feel like I need to finish a book, not because I can't tore myself away from it but because I need to get it out of my sight and mind as soon as possible.

I like reading utopias, from More's Utopia to Orwell's 1984 to Huxley's Brave New World, I read and loved each and every one of them but the characters in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 didn't hold my interest at all. Clarisse, Montag, Mildred, Beatty, Faber, Granger.. all strong yet somehow stuck characters for me. Beatty and Faber were my favorites among the rest but yet again, they were not enough.

Maybe if I read this book in a different time under different circumstances, it might have been more enjoyable, though, I still highly doubt that. For me, for a book to have meaning, it should leave a mark, make a change on my perception, if nothing else, just remind itself to me at the most unexpected moments, take a hint from the everyday life and remember one of the characters. In short, become a part of me.

I don't think I had such bond with this book.



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Outrageous

This is seriously outrageous. I haven't been around on here more than a month?! I'm ashamed of myself. Always have plenty to tell with so little enthusiasm or time to do so. This literally sucks.

I'm worse than my surprise sometimes. I keep saying I will write every time I neglect it here but I don't. I just get lazy and I'm always busy. And I just don't bother writing. Probably the same as my surprise does. Or so I think.

Well, it figures. Pot calls the kettle black.

Book Review - Amin Maalouf

Le dérèglement du monde : Quand nos civilisations s'épuisent by Amin Maalouf

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Enlightening. Maalouf did an excellent job portraying today's world, both East and West, from cultural, ethical, religional point of views, staying in the middle with equal distances to every side. Although he emphasized in almost every other chapter that the opinions he was standing up for was solely and totally are of his own, between the lines, those were also the opinions he wished every human being had deep down.

I was especially impressed with the modern-day utopia he had built in the epilogue, an utopia where obviously he had wanted European Union to be the America of the old continent and America to be the America "everyone dreamed of". That these nations were obliged to design a whole new world order in order to survive. Where, once implemented, every other nation in the world would be willing to follow through because they would believe it really is for their own good. I'm not sure how much of it I would agree but that is a genuinely strong point of view that should be seriously considered.

In summary, it's an excellent book to read and know about the recent developments in the Middle East, West and Far East countries and to see the effects of the politics forced upon every third world nation by America and Europe.



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Sick and lazy.

Since last weekend I've been meaning to sit on my ass and type some stuff but I've been suffering from laziness. And today I have the lamest but the most valid excuse in the world: I'm sick! Not sick sick, but sick that triggers laziness even more. Like all you want to do is lay on the couch, drink tea, eat chips (random craving -not with tea because apparently that would taste just horrible) and watch movies. Scratch movies: I'm too lazy to watch The Men Who Stare At Goats, or Black Dahlia or Frankie and Johnny. Best fix for a rainy Saturday night could be to catch up a good TV show. I've been strangely drawn into the world of True Blood thanks to my cousin so I think it's a good choice for tonight.

Next is The Tudors. Sigh. If only Scotty could beam me up to 16th century!

Or turn me into a vampire. Wait. Scotty can't do that, I need some Edward or Lestat..

And I was supposed to gloat about my Nev concert last weekend! And the Scorpions concert as well!

Oh dear laziness!

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An emotional day for me. An emotional time. No matter how deep I bury it, it is something that I will always remember and never be able to forget.

It sounded next to impossible just a year ago, that one day i'll be able to move on, but I managed. I'm grateful for that.

God, please forgive me.

Grey's Anatomy

I can not believe I have never watched Grey's Anatomy before but I've been hooked to it for the past couple of months. It literally makes me cry and as far as I can remember, I haven't cried for any TV Series ever since the last episode of The O.C.

Yeah I'm sappy like that.

Event Of The Day: Update

So today I got the call from the napkin guy. He sounded quite weird on the phone, I said I gave my phone number because I wanted to thank properly for his compliment. Turns out, he was a Brazilian who was in the town to watch the FIBA basketball games. Coming from the other side of the ocean for the games! Anyway, he suggested we should meet and have a dinner in the same place I was at yesterday. Said, thank you for the invite but I'll pass and that it wasn't really my thing to meet with strangers whom I basically don't know at all. He was like "Yeah thought we could just chat, have a dinner and if you don't want to you can just leave after an hour so." Sounded too much like someone who was looking for a one night stand. I just said thanks and enjoy the city and hung up. Duh.

I did that once but the situation was entirely different. No one can be like my surprise.