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Post by bookaddict on Nov 21, 2006 10:26:12 GMT -5
I agree
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Post by Kristie on Nov 21, 2006 14:55:28 GMT -5
Chapters 21-25 I also find it weird that after G leaves, Baldini dies a horrible death like that of Grimal after he sold G. It's ironic that they both met their demise by drowning in the Seine also. But when Suskind writes, he makes it seem like G has nothing to do with the people who gave him little respect dying. Do you think that it was supposed to be assumed that G had something to do with Grimal and Baldini's deaths? Because I just found it coincidental that G left and the disrespectful employers died. After G left and before he died, Baldini tried to convince himself that using G the way he had hadn't been wrong. It's funny that he has to come up with so many excuses as to why it was all right, because when people make up a bunch of excuses you know that they feel that they did something wrong and just have to justify it and make it seem okay.
I think that this part, with G living in the mountain, really defines him as a person, or as an animal. He requires so little to live and it's amazing that he demeans himself so much. See, I got a little confused because G seems to have a really huge ego and he sees himself as above so many other people. But yet he shuns the people he know he could easily dominate, and for what? To live in a sterile environment and eat bugs? It doesn't quite makes sense to me why G has to live like a bat before he can live amongst people. It was mentioned that G didn't want to be alone to get closer to God or something, but rather just closer to himself. "He basked in his own existence and found it splendid"...selfish, no?
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Post by bookaddict on Nov 21, 2006 15:22:35 GMT -5
Kristie I agree, I also think he has something to do with it. Yet, for some reason he is never directly involved. It's a weird coincidence. He runs off because he is disgusted by humans, but this seems to come all of a sudden.
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Post by Kristie on Nov 21, 2006 15:30:12 GMT -5
Yeah, if I couldn't turn off the powerful kind of scent he has I wouldn't want to be near many people either.
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Post by bookaddict on Nov 21, 2006 15:36:53 GMT -5
I just find it weird because he's always lived amongst people, and all of a sudden he is horribly disgusted by them and wants nothing to do with them. It's like he's running away. Why did he never have that thought before? He's never tried to get away from them before
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Post by Kristie on Nov 21, 2006 15:47:25 GMT -5
that's prolly something we'd have to ask the author himself
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Post by bookaddict on Nov 21, 2006 15:50:04 GMT -5
also if he is animal-like, animals tend to adapt to their surroundings. He never adapted, now he's running away.
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Post by Dominique on Nov 22, 2006 1:45:20 GMT -5
I think all the way through the book so far there's been a very distinct animal theme connected to G, it works quite well because he has such a primal and base personality.
I agree that it's odd he suddenly runs away repulsed by humans, having never done so before. Perhaps it's because he first needed to gain more knowledge of scents etc from humanity (ie Baldini). It's also probably because it seems when he goes off to make something of himself it's the first time he's ever experienced pure country air before and he became intoxicated on it.
It seems wherever G goes bad luck follows, a terrible fate has happened to his orphanage mother (or whatever the woman's name was, the one who couldn't smell), Baldini, Grimal and his own mother (beheaded bit). It's almost like his evilness alters the atmosphere surrounding him and affecting those in it bady.
I have to admit I have lost interest in this book a little, I'm about half way through and I have really liked aspects of it so far but I'm having trouble keeping motivated with it. Perhaps it is just because I've been a bit busy.
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Post by neh on Nov 22, 2006 5:50:37 GMT -5
I had the same problem.. halfway through i was greatly losing interest.
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Post by bookaddict on Nov 22, 2006 9:39:45 GMT -5
I think right now there's so much details, and not much action.
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Post by Kristie on Nov 22, 2006 15:06:47 GMT -5
yeah, the bit with him in the mountain really got boring. i could've cared less about G basking in his own glory, but i think that the very end, with all those people doing that big disgusting/weird thing (sorry, i don't wanna give anything away but the people who've finished prolly know what i'm talking about), it got really interesting. there are obviously murders towards the end or it wouldn't be the story of a murderer now, would it? just keep with it. it's a pretty good book when you've finished it.
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Post by czarval on Nov 22, 2006 15:34:17 GMT -5
I think right now there's so much details, and not much action. Can I ever agree with that! I'm really getting bored with his walk through the country-side.
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Post by Kristie on Nov 22, 2006 16:06:10 GMT -5
when the actual murders start taking place, it gets a lot more interesting...at least i believe so
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Post by czarval on Nov 22, 2006 16:13:18 GMT -5
Oh good. I can hang on until then.
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Post by Dominique on Nov 22, 2006 23:30:30 GMT -5
about how far through do the murders start?
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