I started reading the novel during Thanksgiving break, and I was pretty neutral to it for awhile, but I picked it back up yesterday to finish it and now I'm really appreciating it. Maybe the plot is actually getting more complex and interesting; maybe I'm just taking the time to really pay attention to it now.
Part of the book takes place in the 1950's-1960's, and there's an amazing quote as the characters react to Marilyn Monroe's death:
"SHE WAS JUST LIKE OUR WHOLE COUNTRY...AND THOSE MEN - THOSE FAMOUS, POWERFUL, MEN - DID THEY REALLY LOVE HER? DID THEY TAKE CARE OF HER? IF SHE WAS EVER WITH THE KENNEDYS, THEY COULDN'T HAVE LOVED HER - THEY WERE JUST USING HER, THEY WERE JUST BEING CARELESS AND TREATING THEMSELVES TO A THRILL. THAT'S WHAT POWERFUL MEN DO TO THIS COUNTRY - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL, SEXY, BREATHLESS COUNTRY, AND MEN USE IT TO TREAT THEMSELVES TO A THRILL! THEY SAY THEY LOVE IT BUT THEY DON'T MEAN IT..."
The closer election season gets, the more depressed I become. Can't anyone show me a candidate that has well-defined and substantive goals for the good of our nation? I'll never get over the irony of the fact that EVERYONE seems to want that, but somehow we never quite attain it.
In other news, graduation happened. I'm still processing it.
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