20 Aug 2007 | I don’t wanna be your referee
“What am I supposed to do / I don’t wanna be your referee, but…”
Ugh. Lolita is a disturbing piece of work. Of course, the prose is quite beautiful and very unique, from a stylistic point of view… but being privy to a thirty-something man’s relentless obsessions over a twelve-year-old girl isn’t an entirely… wholesome experience, I’ll admit. Hahaha. Nevertheless, still very beautiful… (the language, I mean.)
Books I currently covet from afar (but haven’t the money to purchase):
- Transcending CSS by Andy Clarke
- Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson
- The Zen of CSS Design by Dave Shea and Molly E. Holzschlag
I’m also (rather relucantly and furtively, for the lack of anything better to occupy my time) looking to obtain a copy of Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. I spent about two hours at Borders the other day, poring over manga and vegetarian cookbooks and privately debating whether it would be prudent to shell out twenty-ish bucks for the thing… that is, until I imagined a certain friend’s expression of amusement and smugness and my subsequent abashment, not to mention my disappointment/disgust and prompt disposal of the dratted thing anyway. (I did place a hold for it at the library, though. But I was shocked and mortified to discover I was no. 129 in the queue. Number 129! I mean, one hundred and twenty-nine!! (How shall I count the ways?) Before moi, there are one hundred and twenty-eight uncultivated chick-flick lovers and hopelessly lowborn readers of teen romance novels… One hundred and twenty-eight self-professed fans of the abominable star-crossed, heart-fluttering, eyelash-batting lovers Bella Capulet and Edward Montague… And one hundred and twenty-eight spineless, and in all probability mentally retarded idiots wasting away their library’s resources in order to wait hopefully in line for what’s bound to be the sappiest, most irritating piece of melodramaticized vampire romance shit ever published. Don’t they have any proper shame, the morons?)
At any rate, I’m looking forward to a meal of pasta and pesto later today. Sarà delizioso (which would be “Será delicioso” para los hispanohablantes). Hmmm, has it stopped raining yet?
S-chan says:
Hmm… uncultivated chick-flick lovers, hopelessly lowborn, and mentally retarded idiots… yet you’re right in that queue with them, waiting for the sappiest, most irritating piece of melodramaticized vampire romance **** ever published. Dude. It’s just an effing book. And I’d be delighted to know exactly how these people are wasting resources. The library is supposed to cater to people like that; I’ve been #300+ in waiting lines for crappy films, so stop carping.
You’re basically as close-minded and bent on grossly overgeneralizing people (other than your superior self, that is) as the ever pitiful Holden Caulfield.
In any case, I’ll be waiting for it at the high school media center.
2:08 pm | Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Amy says:
Hehe, I had no idea that series was so popular.
129th, whoa… May as well go to B&N and read it there… (Except that would be bad, right? Sadly, it’s exactly what I did when the last HP book came out XP).
Mmmm, pasta…. Reminds me of how tired I am of fast food, heh.
5:00 pm | Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Jenny-fa says:
S-chan: I anticipated that snarky retort, believe it or not. Since you’re so adept at quoting others, may I offer one of my own?
The key words there are “for the lack of anything better to occupy my time.” I’m not one of those who can easily find a replacement for Lolita once I finish, and despite my harangue on a certain love-struck pair, there are brief interludes of plain vampire/monster horror that I enjoy in that series, however infrequent.
Also, how did you like the automated asterisk-ing action of that gratuitous cussing? Good work, my Polite-ifier plugin!
(Hey, I like Holden Caulfield. I sympathize with him, the poor boy.)
9:43 am | Wednesday, August 22, 2007
S-chan says:
Of course you anticipated my snarky retort; I only post comments like that to incite some type of reaction anyway. Replying to your smug little comment on your own blog is going to take too much effort, so I’ll only respond to a point or two you made… ’cause it’s not like you addressed anything relevant I happened to say. So here goes:
I chuckled to myself when I saw the censorship because that was your word choice, not mine, and it wasn’t subjected to asterisk action in your post. Note how I politely used “effing.”
Yes, I suppose one can sympathize with Holden on occasion, but for the most part, he’s a hypocritical, homophobic, generalizing, and judgmental phony. Lovable, isn’t he?
6:55 pm | Saturday, August 25, 2007