Saturday, March 20, 2010

The prelude to my long quote

Hm...What is "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" about? It's hard to say when there's not much happening in it. Basically it's written as the journals of the two main characters, who are both too smart for their stations in life. A German review said, "Free of any real 'action' it is nontheless immensely exciting and captivating...Whoever is convinced that philosophical discourse is highbrow and boring will think otherwise after having read [it]."
I love that it's an intelligent book, and yet is approachable. There was one part that was so very me.

2 comments:

Celeste said...

It's not easy being too smart for one's station in life.

lucy said...

believe me, i know