Finished Fear, a while ago, finally updating Blog, because I'm cool like that.

I finished fear a little while back, and wow. It was a great book, left me with more questions than I started with. It was great, the way that the plot seemed to calm down, so you thought that the book was over. But then, on the last 3 pages, it goes horribly wrong and throws everything else you've discovered out the window.

[SPOILERS] Near the end of the book, Lowry (MC) is told by a demon in the form of a 12 year old blonde girl that he's the only living person on the planet and that everybody else is a body possessed by a demon. And, everybody that he's ever loved is now a demon in a human body, including his wife, Mary, and is best friend, Tommy.  They have the ability to steal bits of his soul, so Lowry eventually avoids them until he no longer sees them. Also, whenever he turns his back on people, or "living" things, they fall down like limp marionettes, then when he looks back on them they start back up, as if the world is buffering for him. It seems that things somehow turned out fine, then in the last page he walks up to the neighborhood police officer, that he knows well, and said: "Follow me" he led him into his basement. Lowry then pointed at 2 bodies and said "I killed them last Saturday."; thats the last line of the book.

All in all, Fear was a suprisingly good book. However, right after the last page, my entire mood of "God that book was great!" was shattered by an "about the author page". This was a 1990 remake of the original 1951 version. It said L Ron Hubbard traveled the world and experienced 22 different cultures and races and he shared his adventures through science fiction. I couldn't stop laughing. He's a few quotes from Ol' Hubbard himself to justify his world-renowned Wisdom:

"I do love you, even if I used to be an opium addict."

"The Problem with China is that there are too many chinese here, they reek of the baths they didn't take."

Ok, this remake was obviously funded by the Church of Scientology; Smooth Move, Hubbard.

Symbolism, in my fear? It's more likely than you think.

I believe fear is a giant metaphor for modern religious interpretation. The book is about a man who wrote an article saying that Demons, Gods, and religion are nothing but laws that enforce themselves. He then undergoes a strange series of events, etc etc, cement closing over him, alice in wonderland. However, he's extremely Christian and goes to church more than twice a week; which conflicts his main argument, which conflicts with his result.

I believe that another main point of this book is trust, he begins going insane, and when he was younger, his best friend proposed to who is currently the main characters wife; and he stays over and takes care of Lowry (MC) and the whole time Lowry thinks she's cheating on him.

I'm on page 140 right now, almost done with the book, which is rather short; I was on 80 at my last read. I plan on finishing it soon, probably tomorrow when I have time to burn before I take the bus to college of Marin for my Japanese class.

I'm still working on a Thesis, as you could guess, I got a big report on my hands.