Organised Chaos

Against my better judgement, i will be [hazardously] attempting to write up a review – well it’s not going to be a review cozits not going to be good enough or long enough. But whatever on with the disaster.

What happens in the book is that Carolyn gets married at the age of 18 to this dude who has like 4 other wives and just under 100 kids and was old enough to be her dad then the story goes on to tell you about how she dealt with that and her husband and his wives and how she eventually escaped.

Okay, so that doesn’t really do it much justice but that is the bare bones of the story – usually i’m not into reading other people’s biography’s as they make me depressed but this had special circumstances, so i gave it a go. Whilst reading this book i noticed it’s different to all the other biography’s there is don’t know how it just is, it didn’t make me feel depressed at  all sure there were some bits that disgusted me but i was laughing and shouting at the people [for various reasons] in the book too [i do that i talk to the characters of a story 'How could be so stupid?'  Or 'For crying out loud, kiss her!' Did i just declare myself mad? Talking to fictitious characters ..tut..tut.] What really struck me was the fact that there was a WHOLE community of woman  in polygamist marriages and only she spoke out, in her family out of the 6 wives only she escaped. Amazing how each of us react differently to the same thing.

Next up :

It’s a book about what Huxley thinks is going to happen to the world [well i think that's what he thought]. It’s not as famous as 1984 by Orwell but it did inspire him to write it [or so David Bradshaw at Oxford says]. At first it is very queer for the first chapter you have to concentrate like mad otherwise you won’t understand a word. Despite being highly queer it is an bloody brilliant read and really makes you think about God and society and happiness, especially about happiness I’d say as he proposes that in order to be happy we as a society have to be firstly divided by sects Alpha, Betta, Gammas, Epsilons and a few others then with the use of Hypnopeadia [sleep teaching] you control society, to make sure that they know their place and how to behave and the like so this way everyone will be happy with what they have and will always be in the company off others as not to dwell or become remotely independent after all, ‘Everyone belongs to everyone else’ [quite literally]. Children are no longer born and parents are an abomination, to truly understand you have to know you’re Shakespeare in particular King Lear, Othello and Romeo & Juliet, even though it’s forbidden in their day and age.

And that is about all i can think to say about them. If you’ve skipped the majority or only read the first and last lines of each paragraph i understand, if i was you i’d do it too.