38. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink.

Allllllllllllllright. I saw the movie and then I got super excited when I found it at Goodwill. I love Goodwill..there may be no organization at all, but you can find the best books there. And it's sooooooo cheap, obviously.

So, this was the last book that I read while at the beach. It's different when you see a movie and then read the book..instead of reading the book and then seeing the movie. Your perception is a bit different, I think, because if you read a book FIRST then you develop your own perspective of the characters and places in the book, and obviously books usually go into more depth, so that when you see the movie, you typically feel disappointment, or at least that's how it is for me. BUT if I see a movie THEN read the book, it's not as bad, because you see the characters and the setting and how it plays out..and then when you read the book you're like "oh, yeah, I can picture this perfectly..I remember this in the movie..blah blah blah!" and so on and so forth.

So, what I'm trying to say is that, from the direction I went (movie to book) I thought they did a pretty good job and stayed on track with the book. I really liked the movie and it's representation of the book. Now, if I had read the book first, who knows. But even if I had read the book first, I still think I would have liked the way the movie was. ANYWAYS.

The book was good. I already knew most of what was going to happen because, like I've already repeated 98532 times, it was a lot like the movie. I don't think I really expected it to be much different though. The book is a lot less..revealing, I guess, than the movie. They speak of making love a lot, but in the movie it's like woah shit.

The writing is very beautiful and very mature. It was really easy for me to get into, it wasn't dull or boring. It's written in a way that makes me really..I don't know, appreciate it.

And the story line is just so heart-sinking. It's beautiful and depressing. Yet..happy, sometimes. Not rainbow and unicorn happy, just moving. I don't know, I'm horrid at this.

QUOTE.

"The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive. I understand this. Nevertheless, I sometimes find it hard to bear. Maybe I did write our story to be free of it, even if I never can be."


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