Literature Circle Response #2

Since our last meet, we've began the book "Notes from the Underground". So far we have gotten to page 36 of this puzzling book. The main character, "the underground man", is a very intelligent, masochistic, self-loathing man. This book is different from any other book that I have read. It's not traditional at all, but instead shows the very interesting and different views of the main character. This book is truly a physcological trip into the mind of a free-thinking and puzzling man. I love the style of the book because it's unlike anything I've ever read. It's more theoretical, and spontaneous, than usual but the biggest difference is how its strictly thoughts of the character, the brain of the character. When I'm reading this book I feel more like I'm looking into the mind of "the underground man", and the character is extremely well developed and complicated; completely believable as a real person (even in our modern society). His attitude is very interesting, he believes strongly in freewill and loves to exercise it, to do the unpredicted. He also likes to feel pain for that reason, I think it's because he truley enjoys to be human and he feels almost trapped by his intellegence. He is an existentialist which means he believes that it is up to him to make his own decisions, regardless of reason. Overall, this is a very interesting book and I look forward to continue reading it.