Why is it that in the stories that we most like things turn out badly? Actually let me re-frase that. In the stories I most re-read things turn out badly. For instance the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy series doesn't turn out that well. In an arsonists guide to writer's homes in new england he (SPOILER ALERT) ends up back in prison. In the Bartimeaus trilogy (another SPOILER) Nick dies at the end. But i loved all three books and re-read all three many many times.
Maybe it's because I'm trying to impose a happy ending on it. Like, if I read it enough times it will change how i ends. Sometimes in other books I'll go back and re-read the sad parts. It's like my brain can't accept it and I want it to change. That's something hard I find in books. whatever decisions the author makes, I can't change it. In real life, at least with the little things, I can change them. But books won't change. I'll throw them against a wall sometimes I'm so angry at a stupid line or plot choice.
Maybe that's why people like books or tv shows, especially thrillers. You can't control what happens and it leaves you helpless, and at the edge of your seat. Conversely, maybe that's why people like certain video games so much, because they give you the ability to control so much more then you can in real life, but you stay safe.
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ReplyDeleteHey I did a post on your post.
ReplyDeleteThis is the link:
http://cottoncandymush.blogspot.com/2011/02/response-to-response.html
Eamon, you will revise this post.
ReplyDelete1. make your sentences more intellectual, because saying like before everything (one example) ends up making you have 47 chromosomes.
2. you say the same thing over and over, so it seems.
3. talk more about how you can't change the endings.
4. speak with more voice.
5. Screw the video games ending and find a new one.
oh, and revise it using your own thoughts, not just my five