Haha, here's my trick for reading Wuthering Heights: treat it as if it was Irresistible Poison, and just go for it. Angst! Passion! Byronic heroes by the moors! Ghosts and love lost, etc etc etc. Oh man. It's so so cracked out. It is *ridiculously* cracky. Julie Rose's Les Mis, I'd recommend any day of the week and twice on Tuesdays. Just go and like, rent it or something-- it's enough reading for half a year of dentist's offices, bus rides and so on. It is totally whoah but isn't 'classicky'. It's not like spinach or anything. It's totes all about drama and like, woobies and like, sad puppies and ok, also revolution. haha. No, I should say, it's about Revolution. So it's not a love story except it also really is. Almost anyone can find something in it. really, I think people should just give it away for free as a means of a) brainwashing people into being part of the Revolution; b) ...ummm I'm not sure what b is. But yeah. It's like, whoooooah. I don't think it's just for people who cry at romantic movies or anything. It's like, this totally intense *thing* of... intensity. It helps that it's like, 1200 pages long, so by the end you're like, immersed so much you can't tell up from down or your nose from Valjean's crotch. Or something. ...or not....
Anyway. It's just not like anything else you've come across before, I'm pretty sure. It's like if you crossed Dickens with Blake with Marx with, I dunno, Gene Roddenberry. Crazy stuff. Ok, I won't claim it changed my life. It just reminded me of all the best parts of myself and set them on fire. I mean, that's an ok second place prize, probably. :> Note: I won't guarantee you won't want to slap people in it... they act pretty self-destructive/insane at times, but always for the best reasons, and it's just. I don't know! It's like, you know that feeling of hating JKR's view of the world? Well, imagine the opposite, and times by 3000.
It's more that I think *I'm* weird for being so fixating on my personal symbols for romance... most people have them without obsessing/being aware of them, I think. It's sort of to go with the whole 'unconscious' territory (I'm guessing....).
Haha superhero stories is sooo like, the updated Norse myth cycle, or myth reborn. Sometimes literally (with Thor), sometimes more obscurely, but always (to me) pretty obviously. One reason those stories are so powerful is that they are ridiculously archetypal (one clue, of course, is that they're so easily rewritten/retconned-- it's not the 'story' that matters, it's the Hero's Journey behind the story, which can be told in like a zillion different ways for any given hero). I think superheroes would be pretty popular in ancient Iceland, to be honest... :> Heroes--! See, ok, stories (I think) basically have had two birthplaces and ultimate sources: sex and heroism. Yes. Heroes are it. Also villains. And like, women. Ok, and daddy issues. Really, I think Genesis is one long heroic saga about the badass line of hardcore righteous dudes started by Abraham and culminating in David & Solomon. heh. It's always been about, 'once upon a time, there was a righteous dude... who smote all evil and was best beloved of everyone and was like, totally awesome... and then some asshole and/or woman tried to get in his way'. :>
Anyway, rest assured you're totally normal. (whew??) :> :> My great epic! Hell, I wish someone read anything of mine, it's all good, honestly, haha.
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Date: 2011-11-11 04:14 am (UTC)Anyway. It's just not like anything else you've come across before, I'm pretty sure. It's like if you crossed Dickens with Blake with Marx with, I dunno, Gene Roddenberry. Crazy stuff. Ok, I won't claim it changed my life. It just reminded me of all the best parts of myself and set them on fire. I mean, that's an ok second place prize, probably. :> Note: I won't guarantee you won't want to slap people in it... they act pretty self-destructive/insane at times, but always for the best reasons, and it's just. I don't know! It's like, you know that feeling of hating JKR's view of the world? Well, imagine the opposite, and times by 3000.
It's more that I think *I'm* weird for being so fixating on my personal symbols for romance... most people have them without obsessing/being aware of them, I think. It's sort of to go with the whole 'unconscious' territory (I'm guessing....).
Haha superhero stories is sooo like, the updated Norse myth cycle, or myth reborn. Sometimes literally (with Thor), sometimes more obscurely, but always (to me) pretty obviously. One reason those stories are so powerful is that they are ridiculously archetypal (one clue, of course, is that they're so easily rewritten/retconned-- it's not the 'story' that matters, it's the Hero's Journey behind the story, which can be told in like a zillion different ways for any given hero). I think superheroes would be pretty popular in ancient Iceland, to be honest... :> Heroes--! See, ok, stories (I think) basically have had two birthplaces and ultimate sources: sex and heroism. Yes. Heroes are it. Also villains. And like, women. Ok, and daddy issues. Really, I think Genesis is one long heroic saga about the badass line of hardcore righteous dudes started by Abraham and culminating in David & Solomon. heh. It's always been about, 'once upon a time, there was a righteous dude... who smote all evil and was best beloved of everyone and was like, totally awesome... and then some asshole and/or woman tried to get in his way'. :>
Anyway, rest assured you're totally normal. (whew??) :> :> My great epic! Hell, I wish someone read anything of mine, it's all good, honestly, haha.