Joshua Imafidon > Recent Status Updates

finished the mask. the mysterious liquid interested me far more than the plot of the rep of rep. https://www.scribd.com/document/75043... i also found this set of tarot cards that i think are very interesting. good designs. the aesthetics that this story puts in your mind are interesting and i appreciate them. very inrturiging sense of mystery. :thumbs up:

the mystery elements are so well done, but it really can feel weighed down but how unlikeable the characters are

A is rude to his wife though he apparently loves her? Even though R makes me really uncomfortable, I think he might be an interesting character to add. A is a portrait of a standard Japanese man, who doesn't express much love for his wife but lives quite a normal life, and R is a perverse representation of the negative parts of mankind. sexual violence, morbid curiosity. A is almost likeable, wants to live for family

theres a lot of things about this book that i like, but it feels difficult to care about characters that are such horrible people. theyre both really unlikeable but in a way its useful as I dont really care if they die.

I finished the highlands section of ring. this included the actual description of the cursed videotape, which I found to be very interesting.

read part 1 of ring. i find the main character of asakawa quite objectionable. i dont like the way he talks about his wife or his baby daughter. the recently explored idea of learn and instinctive fears i find quite personally fascinating, birds know the silhouettes of predators from birth, and suzuki showing a baby girl afraid deeply of demons is remarkably unique and scary.

chapter 4. in this copper visited a friend who had to take time off school. he found out that he needed to wrok at his family's business because an employee was sick, and he learned a lot about how genuine of a character this boy had. It was a good chapter

For a book aimed at children to largely focus on philosophy, I think is a very important thing. A large focus on morals and ethics and a person's place in the world, all while being accessible to young readers I think is a great thing.

I really like it so far.

copper is short for copernicus