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- May 14, 2013
As a literature nerd, any of Chris' attempts to understand a book that isn't Goosebumps or Fear Street is pretty hilarious to me. Granted, I'm sure it's been years and years since he's actually read a book, but he seems to lack even basic reading comprehension.
Take the Father Call, when Chris is being grilled about never reading books. While he claims to have read To Kill a Mockingbird recently, he confuses it with Of Mice and Men at first, then boils down the entire narrative to "that girl who was living with her family throughout the Depression and there was that guy in the store who was nice enough to leave her gifts in the tree trunk" (of course, Boo Radley was the most similar character in the book to Chris, so perhaps it's understandable that this is what Chris would take away from it). He remembers that Atticus is "the lawyer" in the story... after Matthew Devoria asks if he even remembers the court room scene.
But my absolute favorite is when Chris is pretending to know about Harry Potter to try to get into the Wallflower's pants: "Take Harry Potter's owl; he tells Harry's story and guieds him, but surely there is more to the owl, like did he have an owl family of his own?" Even someone whose only exposure to the series was the first movie could probably piece together that Harry's owl is a) female and b) doesn't do any of that shit. Of course, it's incredibly doubtful that Chris ever actually read any of the books.
Were there any I missed? Does Chris still read Goosebumps? What if Chris read more books? Discuss.
Take the Father Call, when Chris is being grilled about never reading books. While he claims to have read To Kill a Mockingbird recently, he confuses it with Of Mice and Men at first, then boils down the entire narrative to "that girl who was living with her family throughout the Depression and there was that guy in the store who was nice enough to leave her gifts in the tree trunk" (of course, Boo Radley was the most similar character in the book to Chris, so perhaps it's understandable that this is what Chris would take away from it). He remembers that Atticus is "the lawyer" in the story... after Matthew Devoria asks if he even remembers the court room scene.
But my absolute favorite is when Chris is pretending to know about Harry Potter to try to get into the Wallflower's pants: "Take Harry Potter's owl; he tells Harry's story and guieds him, but surely there is more to the owl, like did he have an owl family of his own?" Even someone whose only exposure to the series was the first movie could probably piece together that Harry's owl is a) female and b) doesn't do any of that shit. Of course, it's incredibly doubtful that Chris ever actually read any of the books.
Were there any I missed? Does Chris still read Goosebumps? What if Chris read more books? Discuss.
I'm sure Chris would take it all literally. Granted, I think Slaughterhouse Five is supposed to make you question reality a little, but Chris wouldn't get that.
On topic though, I doubt he wants to exert that kind of effort when cartoons and vidya will tell you exactly what to see. As I said in another thread, he has a very limited imagination so I'm sure most literature would be a trial for him to get through.
