Status Updates From You Can't Go Home Again

Okay, I had to stop reading this. I completely crashed out and hit a wall at 500. Couldn't take any more of Wolfe's incessant rambling. I think I was pretty tolerant to go that far. LOL I just stopped caring about the characters and didn't see where he was going at all. Maybe your experience will be different and I admired some of his writing, but...moving on. ☺

I get the impression Thomas Wolfe did a lot of beautiful prose and didn't have the heart to cut it out of his book when it didn't serve the story. Too long-winded. The passion and deep rumination isn't yet earned, and is being projected onto rather banal subjects in such a way as to cheapen the strength of the words.

i've been enjoying this until around 450 and now i feel like i've hit a wall with Wolfe's writing. I'm like OKAY ALREADY JUST SAY IT LOL. So I added some short Hemingway to my Currently Reading. I can count on Hemingway to say it simply and directly. ;) Will try to persevere with the Wolfe again soon.

I take issue with the notion of the protagonist's (author's?) that women are all, by their nature, emotionally and rationally different from men. It can be the nature of all partners in love to be jealous and greedy with the other's attention, devotion, and time; to be fanciful in their dreams and desires. Those tendencies are not reserved for any one sex. So, the book plays to sexist stereotypes.

oh wow this is a lot of exhibition