When I thanked Janet for unlocking it, she said she didn’t even pick up that until the second time through. There’re a couple sly references to this in the novel, but nothing is made explicit without analyzing the text and catching a few references. The Key To The Novel - A BIG OL’ SPOILER IN OTHER WORDS: Chick’s not only blocking pain. If you’ve read the novel and perhaps didn’t enjoy it so much, here it is - otherwise, STOP READING NOW: Janet disagreed and then inadvertently gave me the key to the novel. I’d mentioned to Janet that I found myself agreeing more with Tasha Robinson’s comments on the AV Club‘s group read of the novel - though I mentioned, too that I liked it more than she seemed to. Some aspects didn’t seem right to me, some seemed a little easy, some seemed a little unreal. So, anyway - I won’t get too much into the plot, as I figure that the two camps of folks aware of this book are either ones who read it and know what it’s about, or folks like me who thought it was a hokey genre exercise - and for those people, that description alone should be enough to prove them wrong.īut yes - the book like I said, I wasn’t sure if I liked it at first. But there’re geeks too - like their mother, who met their carnie father through geeking.
And it’s THESE type of geeks who are the focus of this book.Īctually, that’s not all-together true - the bulk of the main characters are freaks Arturo the Aqua-Boy, Elly and Iphy the conjoined twins, Oly the albino dwarf. But, of course, it originally referred to the folks at freak shows who didn’t have a medical-type anomaly, so they’d have to do other things to impress/frighten the crowds - like biting the heads off chickens. “Geek” nowadays typically immediately brings to mind doughy guys with glasses who fix computers. I was taken by surprise when I discovered in the first couple pages that I was thinking of the wrong type of geek. So, after a little while, I picked it up and started reading. She and I have pretty in-sync tastes, so I figured there was something I must have been missing about this nerdy-people-relationship book. Recently, Janet sent me a copy as it’s also one of her all-time favorite books. Needless to say, I had no interest in reading it. Seeing as I’m in Seattle, from the title, I always assumed it was some cutesy thing about IT people falling in love and, I don’t know, talking about Star Trek while awkwardly making out or something. It’s a book I’ve always been aware of - when it came out, and for a long time after, it was ALWAYS in the local newspaper’s book section as a bestseller or given plugs as being people’s favorite book or whatnot.
And, Geek Love is like that too - and like Mulholland Dr., at first I wasn’t sure if I liked it. When I saw Mulholland Dr., I didn’t like it initially, but realized it was a damn good film when, again, I couldn’t stop thinking about it for two weeks. When I first saw Barton Fink, I loved it and couldn’t stop thinking about it for a couple weeks. I like books and movies that really stick with you.
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