Uzun Yürüyüş (spoilers for the book ahead) i don't think this was a great introduction to stephen king. i watched a dude on youtube reccommending stephen king books and thought maybe i should read the shining hahaha but i walked into the bookstore, opened this, saw mcvries's name and thought fuck it. aaaaaaaaanyway i spent an awful amount of money.
first hundred pages took me like more than a week. then after that i finished the book mostly yesterday and read the ending today. i was reaaaaaally surprised when the homoeroticism between the two main characters was recognized. also, queerness and the internalised homophobia of garraty? let's just say stephen king is one honest writer. what i hated about this was...........bro no women. and a whole lot of TALK about women. and that talk is solely on their bodies. mcvries backstory? underwhelming and problematic. but i think the characters had that kind of insight too. like,,, garraty saw that and mcvries did too but still. anytime garraty talked about a girl i was like DUDE i am sure these girls had PERSONALITIES i mean care to share??? he just went on and on about body parts. i mean i get it it's a 16 year old boy but yall are ABOUT TO DIE. the WALK, the LOOOONNGGG walk?
okay let's talk politics. this was. anti-patriotic? i SUPPOSE. anti-capitalist? i also suppose. not a whole lot of world-building but it made sense. how this fucked up thing is normalized. and abraham's story,,,, about how he got in,,,,, he thought he was a useless piece of shit and the world would've been a better place without him. A SYSTEM THAT FAILS KIDS so systematically that they get to the point of wishing death and then it says: say no more! but i think the book philosophises on the idea of it —the kids constantly talking about life and death and
Ever tried.
Ever failed.
No matter.
Try again.
Fail again.
Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
- Herman Melville
ever tried
ever failed
no matter
try again
fail again
fail better
samuel beckett
Today will be better than yesterday.Şiir
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink
Life to the lees. All times I have enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea. I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known—cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honored of them all,—
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breathe were life! Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains; but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
EVER TRIED
EVER FAILED
NO MATTER
TRY AGAIN
FAIL AGAIN
FAIL BETTER