Grendel by John Gardner: I adored this book in high school. It reflected my inner monster, I think, and validated my complicated feelings toward my mother. This monster made me feel normal in a way nothing else could, and I started to embrace being who I am. As an adult, rereading it, I don’t like it so much. Maybe because I don’t feel so much like a monster anymore. Just shows how much a book depends on your state of mind.
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Even cowgirls get the blues by Tom Robbins
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Great Expectations- bad influence. Kept waiting to be discovered to be a surprise beneficiary of some fortune for having done a good deed. Never hapoened.
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Grendel by John Gardner: I adored this book in high school. It reflected my inner monster, I think, and validated my complicated feelings toward my mother. This monster made me feel normal in a way nothing else could, and I started to embrace being who I am. As an adult, rereading it, I don’t like it so much. Maybe because I don’t feel so much like a monster anymore. Just shows how much a book depends on your state of mind.
Even cowgirls get the blues by Tom Robbins
Great Expectations- bad influence. Kept waiting to be discovered to be a surprise beneficiary of some fortune for having done a good deed. Never hapoened.