{"id":124,"date":"2008-03-04T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2008-03-04T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T23:02:00","slug":"the-great-heart-of-gatsby-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"The Great Heart of Gatsby Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took a break from my normal sci-fi \/ fantasy reading and read a couple of books I last opened in high school; The Great Gatsby <\/span>and The Heart of Darkness. <\/span>I feel a bit lowly almost dirty say this, but I really did not enjoy these books at all. <\/p>\n

Maybe I am too far removed from the setting in which they are written, or that writing style, but I found each book to be almost pretentious. I know they each tell more than simply the story that is written on the pages, but I could just not find much enjoyment out of trying to decipher the “code”. I recall being in lit. class and being frustrated at having to read something and then trying to analyze what I read and come to the “right” conclusion (or at least the one the teacher had).<\/p>\n

I am a simple person and when it comes to most stories, I listen, watch, read them for enjoyment not to decipher some code and be enlightened. If there is some moral \/ lesson, or some sort insight gained in the normal course of the story, then great, but do not make me read through your crazy soap opera of a lovers triangle in order picking out symbols and ciphers all to piece together your “lesson”.<\/p>\n

To be honest I have a grudge against Lit. Instructors and probably “literature” as a class in general. Teach me to read, teach me to write, expose me to authors and stories I might not have known. But please do not tell me what meaning I should take from a story. Do not put thoughts in my head, or words in my mouth. Whew, ok I am done.<\/p>\n

Crazy part is I do have plans to go back and read a few more high school\/college lit. class reading list books, I am not going to give up on all of them simply because I did not like these two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took a break from my normal sci-fi \/ fantasy reading and read a couple of books I last opened in high school; The Great Gatsby and The Heart of Darkness. I feel a bit lowly almost dirty say this, but I really did not enjoy these books at all. Maybe I am too far […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}