Monday Post

I really like this book for two major reasons. The first is the most obvious, It was fun and easy to read, it is the type of book that you read for entertainment. I found that once I got into it, I really did not want to put it down. More important, is the second reason, I enjoyed a lot of the ideas about life and time presented in it. I like how in part one, Tony describes a brief recap of his life focusing on the major events that he has kept with him for the rest of his life, I think that doing this added all the value to the deep thoughts and ideas presented in part two. After finishing the entire book, I stand by my previous blog post even more strongly and I believe that women are truly very manipulative and they do take advantage of me as is the case with Veronica, and Margaret to a certain extent. She uses Tony in her old age after having broken his heart because she does not want to be alone. Granted, Tony uses her for the same reason but it is not clear whether he ever stopped loving her the way she clearly stopped loving him. This goes to show that she was the one who made the separation happen and because of this, she is now considered the manipulator.

Moving on from this topic, I think that this book was written with several goals in mind. The first is to express the idea of the misconception we have of life. We tend to believe that life begins at birth. According to Tony, life begins, from what I understood, in your mid twenties and possibly early thirties. This is when he describes his life as beginning. When talking about his school years he says that at that point he was waiting for life to begin. The other goal is something that is discussed quite a lot, and that is the idea of: what is history? After reading this book, I believe that history is the stories left behind after everyone has told his or her version. In other words not the lies of the winners nor the acceptances of the losers, but a combination of everybody’s story put together, a balance.