Finished reading Tess of d'Urbervilles.

For the first time, I can be affected so much by a classics. I can ever so amazed myself. The ending, though just and logical, is not what I would favour. My heart was so much in anguish that I had to re-read the last few paragraphs just so that I got the meaning right. So sad.. so tragic. There's a solemnity in the air that one just feel like one should leave off reading classics for a while, for one cannot bear the merriment of happy endings as most classics would entail. And a spiritual book would do good for my soul at the moment, as this classics also began to affect my faith in God.

Faith or fanatism? That was clearly illustrated by the sudden conversion of Alec d'Urbervilles as he converted, only later to backslide and ...

[interrupted by a call.. too late to cont to blog.. to be cont..]


posted by lil piggie at 12:35 AM

Finished reading Paulo Coelho's The Pilgrimage.

I would say that I use this book to brainwash the previous Da Vinci's Code. My first experience with Coelho's work in Alchemist has been most refreshing in the Christian light because he used so many illustrations from the Bible text. This second book, though, has made me more cautious. Or perhaps it is because after reading Dan Brown's work, one is not so gullible as to take in whatever is written. Anyway, the Tradition, as Coelho speaks of, does not seem to be of Christian origin. And the use of RAM... hmm, now there is something written in Da Vinci's Code about what Ram stands more. The God of fertility. Heh hehh.. Am I now on a mission to crack a code within Coelho's work? By far, no..!

Still the book is quite an enjoyable one. Now, to digest a Thomas Hardy's Tess of d'Ubervilles. Perhaps that is a better solution to wash off the aftertaste of too many supernatural text.


posted by lil piggie at 4:12 PM