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Elaeagnus
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Hey All!
I know I've been gone from the site for a long time now, but I just finished reading a book that I thought a lot of people here might find interesting. It's called Eleanor Rigby, and the author is Douglas Coupland.
It's slightly unrealistic, and some of the plot points are bizarre, but all in all it's a really enjoyable, smootly composed novel. The main reason why I'm suggesting it here is that the main character, Liz, is written as a very true-to-life lonely person. Seriously, I feel like she could be me, or one one of the many people that I met on this site. She's in her mid-thirties; she's never been in a relationship; she has no friends; she feels like her life is as dull as it could possibly be. As I said, some of the action in the book is a bit far-fetched, but Liz's thought processes, emotions, and self-image are all extraordinarily realistic. Throughout the whole book, I kept thinking "That's me!" or "That's almost exactly what I've seen people on a lonely life say!"- the honesty of this character's portrayal really got to me.
Anyway, if you're like me and enjoy reading a book that has characters to whom you can actually relate, you might want to give this book a try.
I'm putting a quote from the book below. It's one that practically screamed at me.
Cheers everybody!
One of my big problems is time sickness. When I feel lonely, I assume that the mood will never pass- that I'll feel lonely and bad for the rest of my life, which means that I've wrecked both the present and the future. And if I look back on my past, I wreck that too, by concentrating on all the things I did wrong. The brutal thing about time sickness is that naming it is no cure.
---Eleanor Rigby, by Douglas Coupland
I know I've been gone from the site for a long time now, but I just finished reading a book that I thought a lot of people here might find interesting. It's called Eleanor Rigby, and the author is Douglas Coupland.
It's slightly unrealistic, and some of the plot points are bizarre, but all in all it's a really enjoyable, smootly composed novel. The main reason why I'm suggesting it here is that the main character, Liz, is written as a very true-to-life lonely person. Seriously, I feel like she could be me, or one one of the many people that I met on this site. She's in her mid-thirties; she's never been in a relationship; she has no friends; she feels like her life is as dull as it could possibly be. As I said, some of the action in the book is a bit far-fetched, but Liz's thought processes, emotions, and self-image are all extraordinarily realistic. Throughout the whole book, I kept thinking "That's me!" or "That's almost exactly what I've seen people on a lonely life say!"- the honesty of this character's portrayal really got to me.
Anyway, if you're like me and enjoy reading a book that has characters to whom you can actually relate, you might want to give this book a try.
I'm putting a quote from the book below. It's one that practically screamed at me.
Cheers everybody!
One of my big problems is time sickness. When I feel lonely, I assume that the mood will never pass- that I'll feel lonely and bad for the rest of my life, which means that I've wrecked both the present and the future. And if I look back on my past, I wreck that too, by concentrating on all the things I did wrong. The brutal thing about time sickness is that naming it is no cure.
---Eleanor Rigby, by Douglas Coupland