Day #36 of the 50 Book Challenge..
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shadowkatWell, the challenge here is to come up with a book that fits the prompt and doesn't offend anyone.
But since I already picked A Color Purple for another prompt, stupid me, I'm just going to risk it.
Name a Book with a Color in its Title
Preferably one that I've sort of read.
I own quite a few that I have not read.
And there's a few that I've read, but can't remember. See? Here's the thing about challenging me about books I post here - I can't remember the plot let alone the theme, characters and story - well enough to debate most of them. Your guess is as good as mine. It's amazing how many books I've read that I've totally forgotten.
Truly is.
Or books I think I've read, but perhaps it was merely a dream?
So, I'm going with one that I can remember, because I saw the movie.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
I also wrote a meta on it and the character of Spike.
I tend to remember books that I've also seen the films better. Although I don't think I ever really read this book - except for the last two chapters, which were the only things that veered from the film. Also the last two chapters veered from the American version.
Kubrick and the American publishers intended an allegorical political satire. Burgess intended a coming of age political satire, and despised allegory.
I loved the complexity of the character, and kind of ignored the political theme and satire. I am not interested in theme that much, and agree with Burgess about allegory. I don't like being preached to, and tend to make up my own mind. The one way to turn me off - is to tell me what I should think. I'll most likely tell you to fuck off. Stubborness runs in my family.
So, the books I remember or the stories I remember - usually are character centric, and hit some button or other that intrigues me. Alex, the lead character, goes through a kind of metamorphosis, via a government agency.
The view is once the government implants are removed - he'll go back to being his nasty self, but Burgess' saw it as being more complicated than that. That yes, he might for a bit, but he'd grow out of it, and evolve. That people aren't stagnant, and they tend to be more than one thing. Capable of horrible and wonderful things at the same time, they aren't one extreme or the other.
Burgess was interested in the complexity or why Alex changed. While Kubrick and his American publishers were more interested in the societal and political theme. Allegory is when the theme takes precedence, and the story serves only the theme. The rest exists purely for it. Such as Animal Farm or 1984 - where the theme is more important than the characters.
I don't really like books or stories that are pushing one theme or one perspective, I prefer, like I said to make up my own mind. I don't like being preached to.
But since I already picked A Color Purple for another prompt, stupid me, I'm just going to risk it.
Name a Book with a Color in its Title
Preferably one that I've sort of read.
I own quite a few that I have not read.
And there's a few that I've read, but can't remember. See? Here's the thing about challenging me about books I post here - I can't remember the plot let alone the theme, characters and story - well enough to debate most of them. Your guess is as good as mine. It's amazing how many books I've read that I've totally forgotten.
Truly is.
Or books I think I've read, but perhaps it was merely a dream?
So, I'm going with one that I can remember, because I saw the movie.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
I also wrote a meta on it and the character of Spike.
I tend to remember books that I've also seen the films better. Although I don't think I ever really read this book - except for the last two chapters, which were the only things that veered from the film. Also the last two chapters veered from the American version.
Kubrick and the American publishers intended an allegorical political satire. Burgess intended a coming of age political satire, and despised allegory.
I loved the complexity of the character, and kind of ignored the political theme and satire. I am not interested in theme that much, and agree with Burgess about allegory. I don't like being preached to, and tend to make up my own mind. The one way to turn me off - is to tell me what I should think. I'll most likely tell you to fuck off. Stubborness runs in my family.
So, the books I remember or the stories I remember - usually are character centric, and hit some button or other that intrigues me. Alex, the lead character, goes through a kind of metamorphosis, via a government agency.
The view is once the government implants are removed - he'll go back to being his nasty self, but Burgess' saw it as being more complicated than that. That yes, he might for a bit, but he'd grow out of it, and evolve. That people aren't stagnant, and they tend to be more than one thing. Capable of horrible and wonderful things at the same time, they aren't one extreme or the other.
Burgess was interested in the complexity or why Alex changed. While Kubrick and his American publishers were more interested in the societal and political theme. Allegory is when the theme takes precedence, and the story serves only the theme. The rest exists purely for it. Such as Animal Farm or 1984 - where the theme is more important than the characters.
I don't really like books or stories that are pushing one theme or one perspective, I prefer, like I said to make up my own mind. I don't like being preached to.