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Though barely breaking over 100 pages, Point Omega deals with heavy topics like the nature of time and life and it was not so much a dense read but it didn't feel like easy lifting either. This was another book written in the first person and the style of it wasn't a deterrent.
The book opens up with this 'unnamed' narrator watching a movie (Psycho) stretched out to 24 hours, as I guess a sort of rumination on life and time and the universe. (whatever) Then the first chapter starts with a filmmaker living with a retired war intellectual, Richard, in a near deserted desert house and trying to talk him into being in his movie that would just be a man in front of a wall. I say trying because Jim, the filmmaker, isn't really that intent on that, he just seems to like being away and basking in Richard's wisdom, and Richard likes the company and the willing pupil attitude Jim projects. Soon Jim's daughter arrives and something happens. I'm not saying what because I don't want to spoil.
The event changes everything and definitely makes the story feel more grounded in reality. I don't know if I like it happening or not because I wanted more discussions on life, time, and the universe; but, then again, I don't know how much more I could have taken, so maybe it ended at a right spot. Nothing is really resolved at the end but I don't hate that I read the book.
Some favorite quotes:
War creates a closed wall and not only for those in combat but for the plotters, the strategists. Except their war is acronyms, contingencies, methodologies.
Every lost moment is life.
That puts me at 8/50; not too bad but still behind. Perhaps this week will change that, I have 2 books started and I do plan on finishing Never Let Me Go soon.
The book opens up with this 'unnamed' narrator watching a movie (Psycho) stretched out to 24 hours, as I guess a sort of rumination on life and time and the universe. (whatever) Then the first chapter starts with a filmmaker living with a retired war intellectual, Richard, in a near deserted desert house and trying to talk him into being in his movie that would just be a man in front of a wall. I say trying because Jim, the filmmaker, isn't really that intent on that, he just seems to like being away and basking in Richard's wisdom, and Richard likes the company and the willing pupil attitude Jim projects. Soon Jim's daughter arrives and something happens. I'm not saying what because I don't want to spoil.
The event changes everything and definitely makes the story feel more grounded in reality. I don't know if I like it happening or not because I wanted more discussions on life, time, and the universe; but, then again, I don't know how much more I could have taken, so maybe it ended at a right spot. Nothing is really resolved at the end but I don't hate that I read the book.
Some favorite quotes:
War creates a closed wall and not only for those in combat but for the plotters, the strategists. Except their war is acronyms, contingencies, methodologies.
Every lost moment is life.
That puts me at 8/50; not too bad but still behind. Perhaps this week will change that, I have 2 books started and I do plan on finishing Never Let Me Go soon.
