if you can read this, you're literate

but nobody wants to die.

by david crowder with mike hogan.

if the rest of this book is as cool as the introduction, i will be a happy camper. it's so full of ideas and mindsets that are fresh and sadistically comforting that i know this will be a book that i will read for the rest of my life.

i wasn't too impressed with velvet elvis (granted, i never finished it), so maybe this will be my velvet elvis. it seems the cool thing to do in your twenties to have a book that's close to you and you can quote in conversation.

"according to nietzsche..."
"according to bell..."
"according to crowder..."

the one thing sticking out from the pre-prologue entitled "an introduction," is the old pessimist/optimist analogy. "is the cup half full or half empty?"

crowder insists it's not the liquid in question, but the container. and later he analyzes the analogy even further (a second degree analogy, if you will) into saying that the earth we live in isn't bad... it's not half full. it's just not an acceptable container.

this introduction is dark. it talks about how there was a dying trend in their (the band's) friends and family (including the pastor who got electrocuted during a baptism). he says the smell in the funeral home became familiar. it's the smell of flowers that are dying, no longer pulling life from the ground and sky, to cover the feel of death in the mortuary.

and that's what his comfort was supposed to be?

it's also full of humor. they (the authors) attack a question head on. the minor detail in the back of my mind they spend more time on than i can imagine and actually make it interesting.

they explain how to know which author is authoring. is it crowder or is it hogan? there is a good amount of time spent explaining how to get to know the authors w/o ever actually getting to know the authors.

witty.

here's to hoping the rest of the book is.

especially b/c i really don't enjoy reading.

i know, i know... i'm supposed to read. i should read. reading is a key element to a grand society.

big whoop, i don't like it.

Posted by erichapman on Sunday, October 08, 2006 at 12:13 PM | Permalink