2/9/10

Today I met Joel, a 23 year old, aspiring film maker. I had just come from my weekly therapy appointment and was heading up to work on the F train. I picked Joel to talk to because he was wearing a bright green sweatband with just the right amount of irony. NICE! Originally from Michigan Joel came to the NYC about 1 1/2 years ago to live in "the big city".

On the subway Joel likes to read. Currently he is reading Torrents of Spring.

Now here's the thing....I've never heard of that book. When I googled it I found that Hemingway published his book The Torrents of Spring in 1926 while an Ivan Turgenev wrote a Torrents of Spring in 1872.

I can't be sure which one Joel was reading but he did say it was painfully boring.

Should I read both

and compare or just watch the 1989, Timothy Hutton/Nastassja Kinski film of the same name and assume the books are similar? I think I'll go with the latter.