Earlier at the start of the month I joined my first book club (yes, a little nerdy, I know!) and last night was the first 'meeting' about 'The Chemistry of Tears' by Peter Carey. Between the six of us it was unanimous... the book sucked. I highly recommend staying away from this book so you don't have to bore your life with it, there were unnecessary characters that for some reason had main parts (like the assistant, the fairytale collector, many others), the book was divided up by two characters, Henry and Catherine with the Henry sections being intensely boring, and the main part of the book that I had a problem with was that you knew pretty much nothing about Catherine and her affair with Matthew Tindall who dies at the beginning and one of the main themes in the book is about her grieving about him dying! It was a very annoying read, easy read at least, but annoying. I found it really interesting during the book club meeting hearing all of us get so worked up about a book we didn't like, and although we all agreed on why we didn't like the book, when it came down to the nitty-gritties of the book we all had different opinions about why these things made the book bad but we were still all agreeing with each other anyway, it was interesting to hear the different points of view of the same opinion. However, one thing about the book I will say is that there's this quote in it that I really really love:
"You are wholly unable to associate what you see with what your life has taught you."
I think there are plenty of people including myself who could really use this quote in everyday life. I love how it's saying you've been in this situation before why can't you see that, why aren't you using what you learnt that time around.
Right now I'm reading 'Papilon' by Henri Charriere, and WOW, it is amazing! I'm only 50 pages through but the writing is just incredible, I highly HIGHLY recommend anyone to start reading this book, it truly is mind-blowing!
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