This passage from "The Bell Jar" is just so insightful, and so close to home for me.

[UndertheOcean]

"After Doreen Left , I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't , the way Doreen did , and this made me even sadder and more tired."

I picked up the book yesterday from a small NYC book store on my way to the Bitter End on Bleecker Street.

What is surprising to me , knowing the Novel's reputation , is how funny Plath's prose is , I rarely finish a page without a chuckle or too.

Can't wait to finish this .

[Capn Sunshine]

1. Careful

The Bell Jar has been known to cause depression. It's a True fact*





* Actual reason given why we weren't allowed to read Sylvia Plath in High School Lit class.

[UndertheOcean]

2. Really ? And Hamlet doesn't ???

[Chan790]

3. On Hamlet.

I don't think Hamlet's depressing, I think it's hilarious. It might be the best comedy of errors ever written about a solipsistic broody whiny teenage boy incapable of carrying out a simple task, his trampy mom, his psycho ex-girlfriend, her hot-headed jock brother, two manipulative over-bearing dads, a pair of backstabbing best-friends and an evil uncle. If ever there was a Shakespeare play meant to be adapted into a John Hughes movie about HS, it's Hamlet.

[Bucky]

7. Worst. Spring Break. Ever.

[rug]

4. Reading the Bell Jar on the way to the Bitter End is not a good sign.

Fortunately there are a few head shops nearby.

[UndertheOcean]

5. Whats the use , they only sell paraphernalia , not the real thing

I think Plath would have benefited from a doobey though . Infact I am sure it .

Anyway I couldn't put the book down , done with 13 chapter in 5 hours !!! too bad I have to go to work.

[rug]

6. Oh just walk a few blocks further to Washington Square.

I never read the book. But your enthusiasm for it means it's on my list. Don't work too hard today.