Fast Food Linklater:
This just in: Richard Linklater has been tapped to direct a fictionalized adaptation of Eric Schlosser’s mega-important book "Fast Food Nation". I’ve been following Linklater’s career since his debut film Slacker (1991) and its follow-up Dazed and Confused which was the offical movie of my group of college friends. And since I once day asprie to write a book as good as FFN, this couldn’t a happier confluence of events.
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I could not finish the book….it was not the right time for strating this book….So, I am giving it up for now and hope to start and finish it soon.
I could not finish the book….it was not the right time for strating this book….So, I am giving it up for now and hope to start and finish it soon.
Kevin: You can start by learning how to spell “aspire” correctly. 🙂
viplav: As for finishing any book, there’s always William Faulkner’s advice: If you can’t understand a book, read it five times. Eventually, understanding will settle in. Part of being a reader is discipline. That involves looking up words and references you don’t know, writing down passages, thoughts and notes (all of this is valid), and otherwise devoting your attentions at to understanding what an author has to say. Sometimes, it isn’t easy. But if you stick at it (and it doesn’t matter if it’s “Fast Food Nation” or “Absalom! Absalom!”), eventually, the a-ha moment comes. Keep at it. It’s completely worth it.
Kevin: You can start by learning how to spell “aspire” correctly. 🙂
viplav: As for finishing any book, there’s always William Faulkner’s advice: If you can’t understand a book, read it five times. Eventually, understanding will settle in. Part of being a reader is discipline. That involves looking up words and references you don’t know, writing down passages, thoughts and notes (all of this is valid), and otherwise devoting your attentions at to understanding what an author has to say. Sometimes, it isn’t easy. But if you stick at it (and it doesn’t matter if it’s “Fast Food Nation” or “Absalom! Absalom!”), eventually, the a-ha moment comes. Keep at it. It’s completely worth it.
Ed,
I have apsired the better part of my life to spell things correctly and despite all well-intended apsiration, have not been able too. I’ve given up.
Ed,
I have apsired the better part of my life to spell things correctly and despite all well-intended apsiration, have not been able too. I’ve given up.
Kevin: Well, on a lighter note, I thought only journalists apsired stories.
Kevin: Well, on a lighter note, I thought only journalists apsired stories.
Ed,
Most of them that I know simly perspire stories. Which might explain why news media is where it is.
Ed,
Most of them that I know simly perspire stories. Which might explain why news media is where it is.