Pretentious and Fake?

hack646
Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:12:06 +0000

I mean I could see what you’re saying but there’s really no need to say that reality was incarnated in a bunch of shadows.



Well, Its actually an allusion to Platos “Allegory of the Cave”, which probably only makes it seem more pretentious. :p



Also, your middle paragraph isn’t about the original book but about the books that you had read afterwards. Divine Comedy is nice, and so is Candide but I think mentioned them once in a sentence and never revisiting them again is doing yourself injustice.

I chose Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon as my book essay, and I stuck with it to the end for about 600 words. You should’ve done the same; some might accuse you of “intellectually masturbating,” which might not be too far from the truth.



I agree, I guess what I was trying to do was show that the book changed my views on life and gave me a new thirst for knowledge in general. The books I listed were just to show how much I was able to get out of that new found interest. But, I definitely see what you mean by “intellectual masturbation” :p