the premise: a group of 20-something girls decide it would be fun to mail their favorite books to each other in an attempt to be well-read...it's like being pen-pals, only passing on a letter that was written by somebody else...
Ugh, somehow I lost my comment. Anyway...Hannah...btw, i meant no insult toward your entry. I was assuming that you were just posting a comment and not trying to make a haiku, but it was so close anyway that I thought it ironic. However, I was attacked this past weekend by members of this website making sure I know you're a poetry major or master or something and that I'm an idiot for criticizing your haiku, even if it was not supposed to be a haiku(though maybe it was). So, anyway, hope you didn't take it personally...just adding some life to the site. Especially since I'm not even supposed to be posting... ;-)
So, I finished Life of Pi and wow, I am afraid I will never look at the ocean the same again. I actually started reading in the bathtub one evening but as I progressed through it I was comforted being on dry land. I loved the book, am still gagging when I think of Pi trying out Richard Parker's turd, and wondering (rather morosely) whether or not I would have a strong will to live if I were marooned in the ocean for almost a year. All of this considered here is my haiku:
Strongest will to live Pi, Parker, God, Turtles, fish, I hate hyenas
"I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." - Gilda Radner
8 comments:
how is it that no one has YET to leave a comment about this most amazing book?! suz! allison! suzanne page! geesh.
Heather's Pi-ku #1.
hey! cool! an island.
i'll eat seaweed all day long.
gah!! i found a tooth.
Heather's Pi-ku #2:
Sir Richard Parker.
He's not just a Taylor prof.
He's a Bengal Babe.
a bengal BABE??
heather, really i think that was a bit of a stretch.
Hannah, I think you need to re-read the syllable requirements of a haiku. Yours was screwed up. Perhaps:
What? A bengal Babe?
Heather, I really think that
was a flat out lie
Sorry again for pirating the site...Arrrrrr!
Ugh, somehow I lost my comment. Anyway...Hannah...btw, i meant no insult toward your entry. I was assuming that you were just posting a comment and not trying to make a haiku, but it was so close anyway that I thought it ironic. However, I was attacked this past weekend by members of this website making sure I know you're a poetry major or master or something and that I'm an idiot for criticizing your haiku, even if it was not supposed to be a haiku(though maybe it was). So, anyway, hope you didn't take it personally...just adding some life to the site. Especially since I'm not even supposed to be posting... ;-)
So, I finished Life of Pi and wow, I am afraid I will never look at the ocean the same again. I actually started reading in the bathtub one evening but as I progressed through it I was comforted being on dry land. I loved the book, am still gagging when I think of Pi trying out Richard Parker's turd, and wondering (rather morosely) whether or not I would have a strong will to live if I were marooned in the ocean for almost a year. All of this considered here is my haiku:
Strongest will to live
Pi, Parker, God, Turtles, fish,
I hate hyenas
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