Tuesday, May 1, 2012

"Snow Country" Part 2


Today we had to complete our reading of "Snow Country".  Much to my dismay, but falling right into my expectations, the second half of this piece was just as boring if not more so than the first half.  It dragged on for what felt like forever and it was very much the same content as the first half.  The back and forth between the man and the geisha.  The constant mood swings and drunken tendencies of the geisha.  There were random other events that took place throughout this half but none of them were really relevant, they just kind of happened.  The man took a day trip. The geisha got obsessed and possessive and increasingly more annoying.  It took everything in me just to finish the second half.  Fortunately, some excitement was thrown in at the very, very end of the story.  The movie theater burned down and the woman that the man was crushing on died falling from the building.  How that fits into the story is completely beyond me, but it was there and added a few seconds of interesting reading right at the end.  Overall, this piece was borderline interesting with a whole lot of boring.

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