Saturday Night - PART-AYYY! ... -_-;

It's is late, Saturday night. I had a busy and I was rather productive today but I am for some reason not able to sleep. Read for a while but that didn't help so now here I am- in front of the computer where I will never realize my fatigue until I am ready to zonk out right in this very chair.

My quest to regain my critical thinking continues in my reading.. but not really. I am reading Bret Easton Ellis's ' Less Then Zer0' which is not surprisingly very similar to ' Rules Of Attraction', and 'American Psycho'. Characters who are detached, drug addicted, numbly depressed and superficial. The book contains the routine designer name dropping, and fast paced misery as 'American Psycho' only without the murders. I set a goal June 1st to read all of Bret Ellis's works this summer. I am now questioning why I would want to. They are all the same!

I've decided to take a much needed break from the cocaine club scene of Bret Ellis and I have begun reading the interesting anthology of short stories that is 'Zoetrope'. I am only three stories in but already I can say they are truly interesting and keeping my attention fully. Something a book hasn't done fully for quite some time. God knows 'Life of Pi' didn't.

Zoe's light hearted approach to the future is welcomed after the line up of dystopia novels I have been reading this year; '1989', 'Brave New World', 'A Handmaidens Tale', ' The Blind Assassin', and most recently ' Oryx and Crake'. Yes, that's right, I have had quite the line up of Margret Atwood 's works ( I also read 'Robbers Bride'). Some very good, others not so much. 'A Handmaidens Tale' I was impressed with, 'Robbers Bride' not at all, 'Blind Assassin' mediocre, 'Oryx and Crake' creative, and awesome.

I suppose if I wish to expand my mind for university English "Introduction to Literature' I should be reading something a lot more challenging to prepare. Books on my list such as ' As I Lay Dying', 'Notes From The Underground', ' The Great Gatsby' ( which in truth is only on there because Holden from Catcher in the Rye enjoyed it), ' A portrait of an Artist as a Young Man' ( which is on the list because Astrid from 'White Oleander' had it recommended to her). Or perhaps something still more difficult such as 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' .. though I'm Told "Jude The Obscure' is very boring.

Yes I am being pretentious. I will not deny it. With the correct context I think Iam probably a pretentious person. I would like to read these books to say I have read them and analyze them with others. I will read them one of these days but at the moment - what with work and the stress of life and everything- I have no desire to.

Enough rambling for tonight. It's getting into the wee hours and I need to be able to function tomorrow.