Glassbrain _ _ itibaren Al Badrashin, Giza Governorate, Mısır
More chick lit!
I don't really like watching movies. I would pick a good book any day. I would, however, be interested in exposing my avid movie-watching kids to some classics--and reserved some at the library. We will see how it goes. I agree with the author when he says that the contemporary movie culture has become stuck in a rut and uses the same tools over and over (flatulance to get a laugh?!?). Also, I like what the author says in the introduction in regards to teaching kids that old stuff is good. We live in a disposable culture always looking for the next best thing--this can be true with books too. I would like my kids to have respect for things of quality--if it has stood the test of time, there is probably a reason. Eli has read through the illustrated classics, I hope it will give him an appetite for the real deal when he gets older. When Hannah (my neice) was visiting this summer we checked out "What's up Doc?" I didn't know how it would go over. She laughed so hard and said it was the funniest movie she had ever seen.
This was a poignant memoir. Kovic's alternating between first person and third person points-of-view was a little distracting, but his words painted vivid imagery of the nightmares he lived through in Vietnam and in the VA hospital. The book really challenges us to think about America's disastrous foreign policy decisions back then and even today.
Loved the detail, the prose, and the chance to delve into a bit of ancient Greek fiction. One of the inspirations to our modern fantasy.