Monday, February 15, 2010

And then there was eye stabbing

A very odd story, I was a little surprised. A couple of drug addicts working at a hospital stealing pills getting messed up. And of course working in a hospital there had to be some kind of accident that happened. A guy with a knife sticking out of his eye is not something that you see often, and that eye still being functional , wow.

I think that the author did a great job of making you feel that you were on drugs, I was a little confused as to what was going on for a while there. And there is another reason to not do drugs, getting lost being really confused, doing really dumb stuff. I would have been really freaked out about the being lost and not being able to see but they were so messed up that they didnt seem all that worried. Guess this proves the fact that drugs screw you over.

I really thought that the story was a great one, and I thought that the fact that you were only told the name fuckhead was kind of funny. For a while i thought that Georgie was the weird and stupid one of the two but as you go you kind of see how the narrator or fuckhead is really the dumb one, he lives a mediocre life never thinking anything of it. then at the end he finally realises that he is the dumb one when georgie says that he saves lives.

Enough said I think. Laterz

1 comment:

  1. Your observation of the narrator being a kind of wandering, dull soul are really spot on. You might really like the rest of the stories in this collection. It's called "Jesus' Son" by Denis Johnson. It's very short but really poignant. And you'll be happy to learn he eventually gets off the drugs.

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