So, I just finished reading Tess of the d'Urbervilles. I'm seriously dissapointed with that book.
First, Hardy is a terrible writer. He is so repetive and overly descriptive it's nauseating!
| The village of Marlott lay amid the north-eastern undulations of the beautiful Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoore aforesaid, an engirdled and secluded region, for the most part untrodded as yet by tourist or landscape-painter, through within a four hours' journey from London. |
Summary: There was a village called Marlott and it was secluded. THERE.
Secondly, Angel is an idiot. Normally, I'd never say something like what I'm about to say, but when Josie Swindler set the precedent by saying Gatsbuy is hot and she'd marry him, I now feel no qualms. Tess is hot! That's obvious! And also, she was raped, it was not her fault. So why then did he do what he did to her? I'll tell you why, because of the third reason I hate the book.
Thirdly, why all the bloody suffering! (note: not literally bloody, I just couldn't find an adequate replacement for an expletive here ... although technically it's bloody if you take into account the repeated imagery). And consequently, reason four.
Fourthly, and finally, the book was depressing and it combined with my heartbroken Creative Writing class (the vast majority of them, including the teacher) has nearly SHATTERED my total sense of romance and true love and something about oxygen! (::cough:: movie allusion ::cough::). All I know is that somebody better make me watch a chick flick soon so I can not only regain some sense of hope, but redirect all my anger at the pathetic and feeble attempt at film making.
For lack of an ending, I'll mention that I've two new colleges on my acceptance list. Thank you University of Colorado at Boulder and University of Cincinnati for being so kind. Sadly, when Illinois sent theirs, I decided I probably won't go to these two schools seeing as they're my backups.
Spork.
gatsby IS hot.
i'd marry him too :D
-eli
What's up with Colorado? I've heard of quite a few people applying there. Is it a good school? or does everyone just want to ski/snowboard 24/7?...
-JLew
Yes, it's setting is absolutely gorgeous. There's a mountain visible from campus. My acceptance "certificiate" (the first school to give me a "certificate" of acceptance) has this aerial shot of one of their main buildings, trees all around it, and then the mountain as the background ... it looks awesome. Then, you get a student ski/board pass for dirt cheap year round (like under 50).
As far as the school goes, they've pretty decent engineering actually. The rest of the school blows, as far as I can tell, but their engineering department isn't bad. It's better than anything ky can schools offer.
However, it's on all the "top ten party schools" lists. But I bet you CUBoulder students make fun of engineers cause they don't party as much.
All this is just information I've gathered, I've actually never been there. But I got in! And I'm gonna go visit.
Oh, and you dont' HAVE to write an essay to apply, but it's "recomended." I think Matt Schauer applied to only schools with no essays?
None of my schools required recommendations, but I didn't plan that.
-JLew
your blogish-website is pretty nice. the problem is, now i, along with bigg dawg, chef, and others are left without a job.
Well, Jo, you've your own website, might I remind you. And yes, you're right, it is nice :-P
Spork.
well what about everyone else? im not going to start letting people posting on mine. which .. hm i guess you could argue the same. oh whatever.
I started work on the comments accounts ... I might have that by this weekend ... That way people can post comments but not news