The sex, but also the idea that it creates conversations and opportunities to consider. If ideas are kept away from people, then people believe the ideas that are fed to them.

I read it in high school, back in the Stone Age. I read it, again, in college. I read it in 1984 because it seemed like a requirement from the universe. I read it during the COVID shutdown. Now, I am reading it, again. This go, I am struck by the passivity of people. I see that as a warning.

All of it, but mostly the passivity of the belief that "if there is any hope" it is found in the proles. The magical thinking that someone else is going to save us means nobody is going to save us.

When I was nineI picked up a book at a garage sale for 10 cents. It was called "The Three of Us" and turned out to be this book about a complex threesome. I had questions.

It seems like the quest for mercy is life's purpose, with mercy for oneself essential, to lighten one's weight and allow for " flight."

Watch your glasses!

I started to listen to it, but though Morrison reads it, I felt like I was missing so much. It's a dense read, and one has to pay close attention. I found myself reading it aloud much of the time. The passage where the land "speaks" in Chapter 10 is electric. My recommendation? Read it.

I kept waiting for someone named Solomon to show
up. I am not finished, so maybe he will show. Love did. So did "knowing" and the quest for knowing. I picked up my Grandmother's Bible and read the Song, again... love, self, knowing. Solomon is "there," throughout.

Hagar's rage was so compelling, after Miklman's "thanks you." Anyone who has ever received those words understands that anger and the feeling of being used.

The first sentence completely drew me in. So may questions ran through my mind at this opening... I HAD to keep reading!

You. Are. Such. A. Horrible. Human.

This! 1000%

None. With every page, I kept asking why it was banned?

Yeah, we know. That's why we keep doing it.... and why we'll keep doing it.

It's a slow novel. It unfolds. Like a game of baseball, you have to stick with it. I loved that it was arranged in innings (or parts of innings). I think the pace makes sense if the reader is familiar with baseball.

I fell in love with his writing when I was in junior high school. His descriptive writing allowed me to "see" his characters and the spaces they occupied. I could "hear" Carrie's mother, Pennywise, Jack, the town... and I can "hear" the forest in this book, too.

Yes... that and the private fire departments. There is such an alignment with the idea of the abuse of power.

The destiny is the dream, the ideal, the hope for something better.

Doug days "hello!"