Currently Reading: Hypothetically Speaking by David Dill: Blog 2

So the book seems to focus around three central characters. The really jerkish, arrogant, and selfish narrator, Adam who died and became Samuel who died and became James, who died and became Barnabie, and the final main character being Leila (who dies anyway by halfway through the book). Honestly the amount of characterization in Barnabie and Leila is so atrociously bad I can't really begin to describe. Mostly because there is little concrete description. Actually in the story, Dill straight up has the narrator tell the audience that describing scenery is too much work, "I mean won't people get upset?...What do I even look like?" (Dill 70). However, the narrator is a very fresh and interesting character. Actually I think he's really the only well written person in the story and is the driving force as to why I even like the book so far. The comedy is really all this book has going for it. Well that and the over-the-top nature of the ideas and concepts. From the narrator summoning trees to kill people at random just makes it amusing. The plot deviates so frequently it feels like an eccentric Superbowl commercial with armadillos in a hot tub with really attractive women that's selling some sort of plastic spork. AKA nothing gets done. Actually, there came a point where the narrator has claimed that the author no longer knew what was going to happen in some attempt to not give the author anymore creative right by stating it in the story (Obviously Mr. Dill needs to learn about unreliable narrators) so it's assumed that the author doesn't know what's happening. Which makes sense because the chapterella (like a chapter had a baby with a novella) that this whole "The author doesn't know what's happening anymore) I truly felt as though Mr. Dill really didn't know what was happening. He was probably high on some sort of hallucinogen and drunk with some really strong wine. I mean the main character starts to fly inside of the author's realm and meets 2 women (a 9 and a 8 1/2) a man made of paper and honestly I think he needs some rehab. Actually the narrator got drunk at some point, making some of the referential humor and ranting even more unintelligible than it usually is. It's a funny book to read, but once the author was completely left in the dark of the actions dictated by Barnabie and the Narrator, I'm not sure where this book will go.

Currently Reading: "Hypothetically Speaking" by David Dill: Blog 1

I chose to read this book because of Mr. Dill. A substitute teacher from my 9th grade days. I haven't seen him this year but apparently he wrote a book. I had seen his blog about it, (mrdaviddill.com) but the book was not complete then. Now with the story and all its chapter(ellas) and by the summary of trees moving beyond light speed and attempting to kill the author it seems something philosophical enough to be just like his kind of story. Though the book has had trouble getting published so in terms of quality i'm not expecting much but I think I'm going to enjoy this book regardless of any sort of bias I have.