Dark Tower 2, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

For English I had to read "the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock" by T.S. Eliot. The first time I read it I thought, "meh." Dr Berchin made us read and reread it and then write papers on it and told us how wrong we were and sent us back to it. I have to say, at this point, with just a bare understanding of it, I am really starting to like it. It is a classic and for a reason. If you haven't read it yet, it is in a zillion places online - here I will save you the trouble of googling it.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock

This line jumped out at me the first time I read it and it strikes me every time I reread it - "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;"



I am now reading book two of The Dark Tower series by Stephen King - I am about half way through and so far it feels almost more like 3 novellas tied together by Roland than it's own story - presumably that will change. King is very good at creating characters that I don't particularly like as people and can be a bit folksy in his writing, but that is something that I love about him. Art is about feeling, no?

As an aside - it was a pain to find that cover - I didn't realize I had a UK version (got it at the old Page One Too before it was merged.)

And I'd like to close with this nugget of wisdom from Jim Phillips, front man of the great rock band Lousy Robot -

"Lots of things are gonna screw you in this world. Art never will."