The Stone Reader: Part One-The First Stone

This movie definitely needs a name to pop up when different people are interviewed, because my spelling is awful. I'll try them phonetically. I never get the name of the guy that is on this quest, we'll just call him...

Robert.

Ok, so Robert was told somewhere that "The Stone Reader" was the milestone book of 1972. He probably read it in the non-front page New York times review by Professor Seally. Robert proclaims that reading keeps him sane and that the book is a place within a place. As his season as a campaign worker comes to a close, and he sees that his father is losing his leg to diabetes, Robert's journey begins. He wants to buy all the copies of "The Stone Reader", and, in that, talk to someone who has read the book about the book itself and the author, Dow Maussman, who only had that one novel published. The problem is that nobody else has read the book, except for the professor that wrote the original review.

All the people he interviewed were reminiscing about their childhood days and seeing if they could remember their first book. My notes are really not organized, but it says that someone named Puzo stated that "reading was not relevant". Furthering that, someone else states "because it is a great book, doesn't mean you have to like it"? I do not believe that reading is not relevant. It's relevant to the writer and maybe to the person reading, it is based upon life experiences and if you feel a connection with the author. Reading must be relevant in today's society. Only the best readers have the best vocabularies. But, I do agree with the latter phrase. I have heard some people talk about a book that is supposedly so great, and then when I read it I'm left standing there saying "Where was the great part"? It might be well written, but that does not mean that I like it as well--eye of the beholder, right?

I am actually worried about Robert, especially when he says the "voice behind the pages was a friend". I think he is a little obsessed. He is having people search for the author in different areas and trying to contact people that may know him for the simple fact that he only wrote one novel. While this is a big deal to him, it may have just been some feelings that the author needed to vent about, he could no longer care. It bothers me that he is so determined to find him. I think that Robert saw his life, or, at least, a glimpse of his life in this novel and is maybe looking for the continuation of his story.

I don't know if these were supposed to be longer. I didn't know what else to comment on.