The Seems: The Glitch in Sleep by John Hulme and Michael Wexler
2007
Weight: 1 lb
Method of Disposal: Donating
I received this book in 2007 and have finally read it, 8 years later. It does not feel like eight years at all. I struggle to believe it. Maybe life speeds up once you finish college (or school in general depending on you as a person) because there is a less tangible timeline. People may talk about marriage, kids, retirement as a timeline, but everyone does these things at a different time, if at all. It is not like 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th grade where all of your peers seem to be doing it. If they aren't, you probably wouldn't know about it because school is where you make friends. There may be a few homeschoolers in the neighborhood, but they still have goals that are tied directly to the law. Most people are the same age, even if they get held back a grade. It all seems so far away. Even thinking of "being held back a grade" is so alien to my current life that I almost do not know where that thought came from.
Anywho...
How many times do I wander down that road?
I finally read The Seems, and I was under-impressed. I thought it had some unrealized potential, but the authors did not seem to know their audience. The authors would reference music and artists their audience were likely never to have heard of. I thought maybe they wanted to teach them/expose them to great art but that, in and of itself, felt cocky because they had not earned the right to introduce. By mentioning great artists they immediately placed their own book alongside of them all and quite clearly came up short.
The story itself would often get bogged down in meaningless details and when the "fixers" fixed the world it was always anti-climatic. Who am I to talk? Either way, I do not recommend it.
2007
Weight: 1 lb
Method of Disposal: Donating
I received this book in 2007 and have finally read it, 8 years later. It does not feel like eight years at all. I struggle to believe it. Maybe life speeds up once you finish college (or school in general depending on you as a person) because there is a less tangible timeline. People may talk about marriage, kids, retirement as a timeline, but everyone does these things at a different time, if at all. It is not like 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th grade where all of your peers seem to be doing it. If they aren't, you probably wouldn't know about it because school is where you make friends. There may be a few homeschoolers in the neighborhood, but they still have goals that are tied directly to the law. Most people are the same age, even if they get held back a grade. It all seems so far away. Even thinking of "being held back a grade" is so alien to my current life that I almost do not know where that thought came from.
Anywho...
How many times do I wander down that road?
I finally read The Seems, and I was under-impressed. I thought it had some unrealized potential, but the authors did not seem to know their audience. The authors would reference music and artists their audience were likely never to have heard of. I thought maybe they wanted to teach them/expose them to great art but that, in and of itself, felt cocky because they had not earned the right to introduce. By mentioning great artists they immediately placed their own book alongside of them all and quite clearly came up short.
The story itself would often get bogged down in meaningless details and when the "fixers" fixed the world it was always anti-climatic. Who am I to talk? Either way, I do not recommend it.
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