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My personal impression is that a reader steeped in soul-crushing dysfunction in his or her daily life will enjoy The Guide with gusto not achievable by those wh
by maxaf 10y ago
My personal impression is that a reader steeped in soul-crushing dysfunction in his or her daily life will enjoy The Guide with gusto not achievable by those whose lives resemble nirvana.
- RUG3Y 10y agohaha...that's a funny comment with some truth to it.
- overcast 10y agoExcuse me if I'm missing interweb sarcasm. But how are young children, who are more of the latter, enjoying it more than adults? I'd rather just watch Brazil for that!
- studentrob 10y agoChildren's lives are entirely run by adults. They love to envision a world where that isn't true, as do the rest of us
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoI keep waiting for the adults, and they never show up.
- studentrob 10y agoYes, we're all children. Don't let the adults know or they'll stop working so hard
- maxaf 10y agoMy childhood was anything but nirvana. I'll spare you the sob story about growing up in 1990s Russia because it's unoriginal and water under the bridge. It's also irrelevant to this thread because I read The Guide as an adult while working for a very "difficult" startup that took every dysfunction prize imaginable and then invented some of its own. The Guide pretty much saved me from insanity, and for that I'm thankful.
- pdxgene 10y agoMy experience of first reading these books as a disaffected, ornery, insecure teen in late-1980s America seems to support your impression.