[guessing at the star rating / mining my old FB notes now that they are almost impossible to find]

strange combination on a couple of levels: it's a novel and an exploration of philosophy, the 2 narrators are on opposite spectrums of age and class, and an appreciation of 'art' extends past opera and paintings and meets hollywood blockbusters and eminem. in short, it made me confront alot of my own preformed/prejudiced ideas

one character keeps a journal of movement and that's what i felt mostly shift within the plot - not a huge movement from despair to hope, but a slight shift of the pendulum from resignation to tentative purpose.

as for the philosophy - it has the ability to change your life if you so choose. afterall, if we actually answer what the meaning of life is - we would act and react in an entirely different way