Meg Wolitzer的《the interestings》读后感：
Six friends' life stories starting from their teenage years to their fifties, from getting to know each other, to falling in love, to becoming the best friends, to real life, to drifting apart, to becoming closer. That's real life. That's a really great story.
Most of the book happens in New York City, about three friends and their lives. I feel that I'm emerged in their world, in their psych, enjoying their steadfast friendship, looking at their deepest secrets. Wolitzer writes about the most human part of us, the part you are probably embarrassed to share. Many times I sighed with wonderment and relief, and caught myself thinking, "Yes, that's the feeling I once had."
It's not exactly a tragedy, but I cried in the end, when Ethan listened to Mo playing the banjo; and the comics strips... "Oh tragedy, oh tragedy" the boy said to himself, but he was smiling a little; "oh joy, oh joy", hearts and stars exploded in the darkness above their heads...
Tragedy and joy.
The last sentence of the book sums it up: "And didn't it always go like that - body parts not quite lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting."
Despite all you knew by now, it was still oh so interesting.
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