It can be a poem too. The road not taken always messes with my head. It’s funny that I’m typing this because I always struggled in American lit in college. Funny because I feel like what took me forever to figure out stuck the most with me. Would infuriate me that other kids in the class could read something from some deviate beatniks poem and decipher it by the time they were reading it where as it would take me a day to figure out and still wonder if i had it figured out. All those short stories and poems that I hated having to read and figure out that made me feel so stupid at the time are still so stuck in my head like twenty years later.
i just remember thinking, “just get to the point! I have other tests I have to be studying for, this is bull shit!” Kinda crazy and wishing I could relive those American lit classes. I’m a big fan of Imagery and love stuff like old man and the sea and the hustler.
btw, “short story” is bull shit. Some of these “short stories” were over a hundred pages which wouldn’t be that big of a deal if I didn’t have to keep coming back to every sentence to figure what the metaphors were that took for ever for me.
the Irony in this is that my wife who’s a genius and aced all her classes in college doesn’t remember any of these stories that, albeit took me for ever to figure out are still stuck in my head.
the lottery is another one that still just nags at me because it’s still so prevalent in todays society. The candle I hated so much at the time but now looking back, what a great piece of literature.
i’ve got another 10-15 years till I retire but to me the ultimate luxury is just the freedom of distraction free reading. I’d love to get back to that one day. At 39 with a business and two kids every time some one recommends a book to me, I kind of want to punch them in the face. Not saying I’m mario crystoball but i am just as busy as him and truly believe I work just as hard. Imagine if you told mario to read a book on your recommendation the look you would get.
i just remember thinking, “just get to the point! I have other tests I have to be studying for, this is bull shit!” Kinda crazy and wishing I could relive those American lit classes. I’m a big fan of Imagery and love stuff like old man and the sea and the hustler.
btw, “short story” is bull shit. Some of these “short stories” were over a hundred pages which wouldn’t be that big of a deal if I didn’t have to keep coming back to every sentence to figure what the metaphors were that took for ever for me.
the Irony in this is that my wife who’s a genius and aced all her classes in college doesn’t remember any of these stories that, albeit took me for ever to figure out are still stuck in my head.
the lottery is another one that still just nags at me because it’s still so prevalent in todays society. The candle I hated so much at the time but now looking back, what a great piece of literature.
i’ve got another 10-15 years till I retire but to me the ultimate luxury is just the freedom of distraction free reading. I’d love to get back to that one day. At 39 with a business and two kids every time some one recommends a book to me, I kind of want to punch them in the face. Not saying I’m mario crystoball but i am just as busy as him and truly believe I work just as hard. Imagine if you told mario to read a book on your recommendation the look you would get.
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