5/21/2023 0 Comments The wild things eggersJavin says the events on the island are rendered meandering and “plotless” in Egger’s hands. When fleshed out, Max appears pesky and the monsters become unloveable. Like many others, he feels Eggers’ verbose writing style detracts rather than adds to Sendak’s much-beloved characters. He did not enjoy Egger’s detailed “deconstruction” of Sendak’s original. Timmy found Sendak’s version dark and evocative, allow your imagination to run wild and fill in the gaps. However, Eggers’ biggest crime, some say, is his failure to capture the gay subtext inherent in the original. Some members, such as Joshua and Gavin, felt the fleshing out of the characters and the “heavy-handed” commentary on war and violence killed the seemingly innocent charm of the original. On the whole, the book club felt that Eggers, while a good writer of prose, did not capture the vivid and magical world conjured by Sendak’s short children’s book. He’s lived with psychoanalyst Eugene Glynn for 50 years. Sendak is gay but made an official admission of his orientation in 2008. We discussed Maurice Sendak’s children’s classic Where The Wild Things Are, and Eggers’ novel adaptation of it titled The Wild Things. Attendees: Timmy, Alex, Alexius, Joshua, Gavin, Javin, Aaron.
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