Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
October 14, 2014
Group sex and conveyor-belt babies aside, Brave New World kind of socked me in the heart with all its ideas about happiness and the human condition.
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In Gilmore Girls, aka the best show ever written, bright-eyed Rory Gilmore is continually seen reading a wide array of books. Whether in preparation for Harvard or for her time at Yale, she is always improving herself via literature. Patrick Lenton decided to take a leaf out of Rory’s books and read Rory’s books.
In Gilmore Girls, aka the best show ever written, bright-eyed Rory Gilmore is continually seen reading a wide array of books. Whether in preparation for Harvard or for her time at Yale, she is always improving herself via literature. Patrick Lenton decided to take a leaf out of Rory’s books and read Rory’s books.
Group sex and conveyor-belt babies aside, Brave New World kind of socked me in the heart with all its ideas about happiness and the human condition.
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It’s easy to imagine the precocious Rory Gilmore reading Mary McCarthy’s essays. McCarthy is perfect for Rory: clever, insightful and not easily swayed.
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The Bielski Brothers is an amazing story about three Jewish brothers fighting a guerrilla war against the Nazis.
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As a treatise on women who defied norms throughout history, Bitch held a lot of promise. But instead it turned into a whirlwind of half-baked theories, personal anecdotes and wild speculation.
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It’s all very violent and there are battles and demons, and when I say it like this, it all sounds cool. But I didn’t understand what was happening.
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One thing I did wonder when reading this is what will the world learn from Gilmore Girls thousands of years into the future?
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I didn’t want to read this book. I had a vague idea of what it was about – harrowing slavery, a woman with a dead baby.
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In a way, you might say The Bell Jar is Rory and Lorelai’s detective fiction and muscle cars.
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I kind of want to live in Stars Hollow, but also I realise that I would probably go insane almost immediately.
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Now, I have to admit, when it comes to the Dean/Jess debate, I’m on team Jess.
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Faludi examines gender roles and the idea that, because there are women who feel disappointed or disheartened by feminism, and because there are those who claim that it has no relevance today (certain media outlets and politicians for example), shows that we still need feminism.
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Babe is a warm little cuddle of a book in which a young orphaned pig becomes a successful sheep-herder because he treats the sheep with care and courtesy.
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I feel this book almost directly correlates with Rory’s ‘awakening’ at the hands of bad-boy Jess.
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Rory Gilmore is way more hardass than me in her choice of harrowing reading material – though, let’s face it, Rory Gilmore is way more hardass than everyone.
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Atonement is one of those beautifully crafted books that manages to evoke the feeling of looking at a misty, crumbling manor house while remembering all the terrible things you’ve done in your life.
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What I thought was a mildly challenging, but gently beautiful book, was in fact one of those not-as-rare-as-I’d-like texts that might actually send me mad.
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I may be wrong, but I believe the entire reason I’m reading The Art of War is because Paris quips that she can deal with aggressive behaviour because “she has read The Art of War”.
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It has taken me to almost thirty-fucking-two to finally understand a TV show about a caffeine-addled mother-daughter duo quipping their privileged way through small-town life.
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Having to wade through this dry examination of a specific period of the Peloponnesian conflict simply because the book APPEARED on Richard Gilmore’s shelf in an episode was super hard.
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In a way, Stars Hollow is a claustrophobic and confined space, and the town’s scrutiny is equally as inhibitory to them.
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Russian literature is a huge, icy black ocean. You hear people tell stories about it, in a casual, offhand way. ‘Oh yeah, I read War and Peace’ and everybody else in the room just shuts up.
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Despite no end of dead babies, I found Angela’s Ashes a cheering book in many ways.
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More like Theodore Dreiser-bone. That was a witty quip to connote that he’s boring, and not some kind of reference to a rural raincoat.
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Why is this book so wonderful? Without dripping rhapsodic or going into the deep dark recesses of cold hard literary deconstruction, let’s just say that the book somehow slips through the layers of razor-wire cynicism I’ve erected around the black hole where my emotions live.
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Oh, the mixed-up, topsy turvy characters you meet in this endless succession of weird situations. How does our intrepid heroine overcome her series of trials? Mostly by virtue of not doing something even worse, such as setting herself on fire.
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The harsh, joyless critic who lives inside me put down Huckleberry Finn and thought, ‘more like the NOT-adventures of Huckleberry Finn’
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Is there any limit to the lessons we can learn from Gilmore Girls? I personally don’t think so.
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