Good Friends

The expression "Good friends are hard to find" has become a bit of a cliche but I think it is perfectly true.  If good friends were easy to find, everyone would be happy and loved.

I have often times felt used by my friends.  One friend of mine only seems to call me when she needs a ride or wants to discuss her boyfriend.  Another friend only talks to me when he wants to feel good about himself.  I suppose it is my fault for not standing up to them.

However, I have two best friends who make up for everything.  One is my sister and she has always taken care of me, even when she has lived far away.  The other one is my best friend who not only brings out the best in me, but cares about my feelings.

Good friends may be hard to find but they are worth the wait.

Overrated Movies

I wanted to follow up on my last post, where I talked about the most overrated books.  Likewise, there is a certain amount of guilt in not liking so called classic movies so I thought I would make an overrated movie list as well.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey: This movie is dreadfully dull and any point that it tries to make is lost to the viewer.  Instead of pondering the film, the viewer is pondering ways to escape the theater.
2. A Clockwork Orange: As you can probably tell, I am not a big Kubrick fan.  This film is very disturbing to watch.  I don't mind watching disturbing films if I gain something from them, but, unfortunately, I did not.
3. Schindler's List: I have seen plenty of Holocaust movies that are infinitely better that do not get the praise this movie has gotten.  I suppose that is because Spielberg has the name recognition but this is another dull film that has not lived up to the hype.
4. Citizen Kane: This is movie is often considered the greatest film of all time.  However, this is another one that bored me to tears.
5. Last Tango in Paris: This film is even more disturbing than A Clockwork Orange and again, there is no point.

Overrated Books

As an avid reader, often times I made to feel ashamed if I have not read or liked a certain book.  I have read most of the classics and I can you that a lot of them are overrated and dull.  Here is my list of the most overrated books:
1. Anna Karenina: this novel is mostly the same as Madame Bovary.  The difference is that Flaubert is able to make his point in a concise manner while Tolstoy takes around 900 pages to come to his.
2. Moby Dick: I thought that a book about a whale chase would be something like Jaws and therefore halfway interesting but no such luck.  The only interesting thing was that two grown men that were strangers slept in the same bed.
3. Tale of Two Cities: Just incredibly dull.
4. Atlas Shrugged: Rand seemed to just want to rant about politics and wanted a platform to do so.  I guess she came up with this horribly boring storyline as a front for shoving her opinions down our throats.
5. Crime and Punishment: This novel had an interesting concept but in the end was just way too verbose.