Michael Turner's Hard Core Logo was the only book of the class I didn't really enjoy. I mostly didn't enjoy it because it didn't engage me. There was nothing that caught my attention, no big anticipated part, and I didn't really understand the point of it.
This novel consists of only one hundred and thirty some pages, and each page only has a few lines or a paragraph at most. This struck me strang, but being a novel about punk rock I guess Turner did this for a reason. Rock music is always quick and short and to the point, as was Hard Core Logo the novel, and band. The band explains that it ended quickly and in the novel there was no time wasted in explaining "Joe Dick contemplated whether or not to call Billy Talent", it just showed a phone call, then another phone call, then a song, then a sign, then it was over. I just did not enjoy it. Had it of been a band I liked or knew about, I think i would feel different. Also the fact that I thought 'Billy Talent' in the novel was Billy Talent from the band really didn't help either, ooops.
I was also led to believe (from a friend) there was going to be a *gasp* ending, which there wasn't. But my friend actually had the Hard Core Logo DVD which I am going to watch, and hopefully find a better appreciation for the novel.
Aside from not really liking the novel, I did enjoy the songs that were in there. I found them clever, witty and funny! Also, I found other obvious parts funny such as Billy Talents answering machine. So even though I didn't like the novel as a whole, It was an OK read.
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The movie has a *gasp* ending that isn't in the book!
ReplyDeleteIt helps to think of the book as a collection of poetry (which it really is) as opposed to a novel. Trying to get a handle on each piece individually will help to put together the ultimate point of the text as a whole.
And Billy Talent the band named themselves after Billy Tallent the character. ;-)