A Sense Of Reality by Graham Greene
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I can’t see what all the fuss is about Graham Greene. This book was just OK, but nothing special.
I can’t see what all the fuss is about Graham Greene. This book was just OK, but nothing special.
A little known disease/infection/parasite
is the need to survive
When it kills all else
in order to thrive
Your hopes, your dreams
Your love for your offspring/sibling
Your all it seems
Is this drug called breathing
Your friends, your loyalties
Your “unbending” moral standing
Your treasures and frivolities
All subject to that craven craving
Everything that you are
All traded in fear
Just so you can suck down
One more sweet hit of air
In a world gladly caved
To the pressures of this panic
Striving to “Live”
Seems hopeless and idiotic
Yet idiot that I am
I don’t consider myself a fool
For we only have 1 life to give/live
And it’s up to us to “choose” how we do
A gritty novel about social interactions, class snobbery, teenagers at war with their parents, narrow-minded villagers and all the inevitable dramas that follow from that heady mix.