Monday, December 05, 2005
The Weight of the World
OK. It should be called "the weight of this big book"!! :)
I really tried to trudge through this thing. I picked it up when it was sent to me three weeks ago through Amazon. First, much of it talks particularly of Europe, France in particular, which indeed is not at all helpful to our group. Second, much of the writing seems puffed up in itself. I don't feel like I am being presented something or told something or shared something in stories (much fo the book is stories) but I am being forced to hear something. What I can decipher from the cultural bias he has seems good. It is just too much work to try and figure this guy out. Seriously. I did like hearing some of the interviews with various kinds of workers who are trying to make it by on little. "Working Nights" on starting on page 300 was particularly stirring. I cannot even relate to working in factories or working long shifts like that.
I really tried to trudge through this thing. I picked it up when it was sent to me three weeks ago through Amazon. First, much of it talks particularly of Europe, France in particular, which indeed is not at all helpful to our group. Second, much of the writing seems puffed up in itself. I don't feel like I am being presented something or told something or shared something in stories (much fo the book is stories) but I am being forced to hear something. What I can decipher from the cultural bias he has seems good. It is just too much work to try and figure this guy out. Seriously. I did like hearing some of the interviews with various kinds of workers who are trying to make it by on little. "Working Nights" on starting on page 300 was particularly stirring. I cannot even relate to working in factories or working long shifts like that.
# posted by ErinW @ 12:09 PM
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