this is what happens when I have no chocolate

[lauralh]

I finished The Secret History last night, which is about a group of eccentric Classics students who try to reproduce a bacchanalia and succeed so well they kill a man. And then what they have to do to cover it up. It's amazingly bad - it's supposed to take place in the late 80s but you couldn't tell until one of the characters mentions "slam-dancing." And of course the requisite "bad novel, just add incest." I mean, the story is really about the narrator trying to fit in with these misfits, and all the murder stuff just kind of gets in the way. Totally melodramatic but would "make a great movie."

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whereas I have a Comp Sci degree

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed it, it was just unbelievable and trashy.

as was I, though I doubled in Cultural Anthro.

[danguyf.livejournal.com]

I find it neither. It's one of my favorite books. It is analogous to my college experience to a 'T'.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

well yeah, if she'd stayed with the alienated college youths instead of making them kill people, that would have been a great book.

[danguyf.livejournal.com]

My friends and I totally killed people in fits of bacchanalia. Metaphorically speaking, of course.