I have put a halt to two books i was reading - mockingbird and leila ahmed's muslim women, and they will go straight to the bookshelf for some reasons fairly obvious. I find the reading a bit tedious especially for mockingbird, where the dialogues are mundanely scattered and the narration too simply put; i'd prefer verbose, vivid description of an occurence and I find this wanting in this book. Harper Lee however, bagged the Pullitzer for this book while I don't question the basis for her selection I was hoping that the writing style would be more Booker-like. But I've heard that Pullitzer isn't much about literary and all and it's more on the tackling of the issues, the big revelations and what nots so I just have to come to terms that a Pullitzer is usually boring? :). Maybe yes and maybe not and this could only be one of the books that satisfies only a certain audience and unfortunately so, I am one who falls into the nonintended crowd.
As for Leila Ahmed I think her book should just find its resting place because at the moment, I'm building a library of too many literary fictions. All the readings for social science books will have to be put off with immediate effect until i decide otherwise. That is, if I really think I would want to read social science again (after reading masterpieces of a bunch of master storytellers, I doubt it's going to happen, though if it did it won't be too peculiar because it's been my cup of tea, for years)
And the reading for my first Ishiguro's now is complete, and I have included Ishiguro and Ian McEwan in the list of my favorite literary authors. Both of them posess similar prowess when it comes to language and the art of stori telling - reading their books make me want to go pursue MFA in creative writing :). (duhh...)Like my two other favorite authors - (Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh), they are Booker laureates as well and I do so believe that any authors who had been at least longlisted in the prize will command a considerable amount of attention in their literary works and avoiding their books is simply, a big loss one cannot ignore.
It's like, one ignoring a much-deserved Oscars for any metrowealth movies under Ahmad Idzham's directorship, or anything measuring to its prestige, it's akin to that. How could one be so inconsiderately unappreciative,and notoriously, curmudgeonly culture-blind.
Good news on the horizon regarding Malaysian politics is that the our dear former finance minister (Ku Li) will be the director of by election Dun Galas. Good luck to him with that. I'm no UMNO man neither I am with PAS or PKR or even DAP but I see that some leader are really driving Malaysia into the right direction. We don't want any political idealists or 'mentaliti orang kaya' politicians to swarm our political scene with their rhetorics and turn in into some New World, Equality, Freedom-For-All Agenda but all we need now is a balanced leader who thinks more of his men and his country more than on wealth accumulation, or even on petit issue such as human rights? (WTF). Knowledge accumulation is fine and we need a leader who is decisive, political-savvy and concentrate his leadership on the the majority - for that is what democracy is all about - the taken care of the well-being of the majority. Are the majority of Malaysians orang kaya? Is everyone of them is so concerned and obsessed with human rights that they really desire the so-called liberations and equality? And these rhetorics...equal footing...level playing field...is it in every heart of each of us? Are we all so impoverished that we cannot feed famished stomachs at home and thus require the salvation of the upper hand to liberate us?
Is it all that severe...? I mean, life down here...
we shall see what happens in the future...but i have this wish that whatever changes that's gonna take its place...it won't one too drastic that some quarters are unable to cope with it ending up in wider marginalizations among us... those at the top won't be feeling the heat...because they are after all, too thick-headed with all this 'mentaliti orang kaya' issues and paying too much homage to the West that they forget who they really are....Asians full of compassion, tolerance and respect for each other.....
As for Leila Ahmed I think her book should just find its resting place because at the moment, I'm building a library of too many literary fictions. All the readings for social science books will have to be put off with immediate effect until i decide otherwise. That is, if I really think I would want to read social science again (after reading masterpieces of a bunch of master storytellers, I doubt it's going to happen, though if it did it won't be too peculiar because it's been my cup of tea, for years)
And the reading for my first Ishiguro's now is complete, and I have included Ishiguro and Ian McEwan in the list of my favorite literary authors. Both of them posess similar prowess when it comes to language and the art of stori telling - reading their books make me want to go pursue MFA in creative writing :). (duhh...)Like my two other favorite authors - (Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh), they are Booker laureates as well and I do so believe that any authors who had been at least longlisted in the prize will command a considerable amount of attention in their literary works and avoiding their books is simply, a big loss one cannot ignore.
It's like, one ignoring a much-deserved Oscars for any metrowealth movies under Ahmad Idzham's directorship, or anything measuring to its prestige, it's akin to that. How could one be so inconsiderately unappreciative,and notoriously, curmudgeonly culture-blind.
Good news on the horizon regarding Malaysian politics is that the our dear former finance minister (Ku Li) will be the director of by election Dun Galas. Good luck to him with that. I'm no UMNO man neither I am with PAS or PKR or even DAP but I see that some leader are really driving Malaysia into the right direction. We don't want any political idealists or 'mentaliti orang kaya' politicians to swarm our political scene with their rhetorics and turn in into some New World, Equality, Freedom-For-All Agenda but all we need now is a balanced leader who thinks more of his men and his country more than on wealth accumulation, or even on petit issue such as human rights? (WTF). Knowledge accumulation is fine and we need a leader who is decisive, political-savvy and concentrate his leadership on the the majority - for that is what democracy is all about - the taken care of the well-being of the majority. Are the majority of Malaysians orang kaya? Is everyone of them is so concerned and obsessed with human rights that they really desire the so-called liberations and equality? And these rhetorics...equal footing...level playing field...is it in every heart of each of us? Are we all so impoverished that we cannot feed famished stomachs at home and thus require the salvation of the upper hand to liberate us?
Is it all that severe...? I mean, life down here...
we shall see what happens in the future...but i have this wish that whatever changes that's gonna take its place...it won't one too drastic that some quarters are unable to cope with it ending up in wider marginalizations among us... those at the top won't be feeling the heat...because they are after all, too thick-headed with all this 'mentaliti orang kaya' issues and paying too much homage to the West that they forget who they really are....Asians full of compassion, tolerance and respect for each other.....
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