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 Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:15 pm
Princess Volupine  i wasn't trying to be rude about eet! better than "that pitiful excuse for a classic" or other stuff, oy thot :/
yay!
"What a deformed thief this fashion is."
-William Shakespeare
i think we need to read that for the book club just so we can discuss it and how poorly written I just realized it is
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Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:22 pm
I'm pretty great other then being hot as heck gonk How are you?
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Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:35 pm
why are you hot? where do you live?
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 11:04 am
abbie~back from the dead!! 8D
eleiza~ told you!
[[total smugness]]
what made you decide it was an epic fail? "What a deformed thief this fashion is."
-William Shakespeare
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Princess Volupine Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 12:38 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 12:55 pm
okay let's see. You know how I said that the characters seemed to change and mold as real people do? Well, when I was halfway through it, I began to think that the characters each seemed to have a defined role. Like...the preacher was there to insert philosophical thoughts and the mom to hold the family together and then all the dad did was to complain that he wasn't the head of the family anymore. Each character seemed to be just a molded person; not real, just plasitic. Everything also happened too conveniently. Like the grandpa just up and had stroke because he didn't want to leave his home and then nobody noticed that the grandma stopped breathing and then tom found work way too easily. Everything just seemed too...fake. Like he just said things through the dialogue in order to tell us because he had no other way to convey his thoughts. If he had only left out the rest of the story and kept the poetic interludes, then the novel would be truly epic and worth reading. Alas, he did not and insisted on having a filler story. lol
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:03 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:05 pm
yeah, I know, but the sad part is, in my opinion, this was worse in the fakeness than twilight because in twilight the happenings just seemed too perfect, too happily perfect, but in GW, they were most certainly not perfect. Like...it's just...the things in the book would never happen that way, not even in an unhappy world.
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:12 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:09 pm
eleiza~ damn, dude. that is some srs hate over thur. i at least admired the heavy symbolism and "I to we" thing they had goin' on. and the micro/macro-cosms.
i didn't see it as 'fake;' rather, everything that happened had to happen for a reason. Mind you, Steinbeck chronicled the life of the average American during the Dust Bowl. This had never been done before. He opened up a wound in our history, revealing America's Shame.
I just didn't like his style, plus i thot it was hella boring.
ANWAY, i was sad when grandpa joad died. he symbolized the old way of life. having been a farmer his entire life, there was no way he'd be able to adapt--to function in this harsh new world.
boo~ agreed. Twilight is not literature. D:<< "What a deformed thief this fashion is."
-William Shakespeare
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Princess Volupine Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:10 pm
I actually didn't think it was boring. I like the topic and I realize that it was really tough to live during the depression.
The symbolism, though, seemed to be only contained in the off chapters, the chapters that did not progress the story.
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:18 pm
it was so dry! ugggh!!
what? the intercalary chapters??
what he did was generalize [[like with the car salesman]] and then go into specifics whith the Joads. that;s where i saw the symbolism. "What a deformed thief this fashion is."
-William Shakespeare
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Princess Volupine Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 3:05 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:22 pm
ohaithar.
A hawt Italian guy and I are crushing on each other.
<3
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:57 am
@ Eleiza0250: I am hot because I live in the desert gonk
and I live in Phoenix, Arizona.
@ Princess Volupine & captains bootie: OMG I know right, I've been gone much too long.
How is everyone? just wonderful I hope smile
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