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Fri 1 Aug, 2003 09:30 pm
I'm halfway done with this book and I am afraid that I've lost my faith in Pulitzer Prize winners. This book doesn't seem to get any better. The symbolism and philosopical insights are so tangled in a mass of larvae, praying mantises and trees with lights in them that I begin to loose intrest. A better book with more spiritual insight and philosophy is "The Brother's Karamazov". It's interesting to read but still mentally stimulating and satisfying. I'd rather not dig through a tangled mass of words to shed some light on the relationship between behaviors in nature, of man and of God.
If you have read half the book, any book, and are this dis-satisfied then stop reading it for awhile. If sometime in the next months your mind reminds you were reading it, pick it up again. If not, use it as a doorstop.
Is that the Anne Dilliard book? If so, I'll have to agree with you. I read the book years ago and thought she rambled on a bit too much.
Well, I hated 'Magnolia', the movie. What a piece of tangled crap. I feel the same about books. Sometimes a writer gets so wrapped up in being "symbolic" they forget that they are trying to tell a story to people who do not live in their heads. If you liked "Karamazov" gvapid, you will love "Crime and Punishment", if you haven't read it already.
I read Pilgrim years ago and don't know what I'd think of it now, but then I just loved it and looked for everything she'd written.
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