Smells Like Teen Spirit (Only Not)

[redbrunja]

So I'm in the middle of Saving June, which I am actually enjoying, with one big caveat:

While law of averages demands that, somewhere in the united states, there is a group of politically active teenagers who are all rabidly passionate about seventies music.... it's completely unbelievable in a contemporary work of fiction. Completely. Sure, there are teens who are passionate about cultural appropriation and being allies and being aware of and fighting privilege... but they're talking about that on tumblr, not around a beach fire while someone melodically strums a guitar.

I got to the part where the main characters are just randomly going to go to a "kind of intense" anti-war demonstration and I'm just like:



I wish the author would have stuck to questioning the existence of god and meaning in the universe, or talked about the nihilism and apathy that (imho) is what my generation struggles with.

Also, I'm almost done with Gone, Girl, and goddamn, was that book a massive, massive disappointment. I feel so stupid that I believed all the people saying good things about this book. I feel so guilty that I infected qualapec and her mom with my excitement for that book. Mea culpa.

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[beagleinspace.livejournal.com]

It is slow going as I'm still annoyed with both characters and apparently I wasn't in as far as I thought -- I'm reading it on a little Blackberry and the status bar says I'm halfway through, but I apparently only made it to part 2 (totally called the twist there) and I vaguely recall there being 3 parts to it.