Originally posted by TigranJamharian what a sad story a bout the bird that sings. i love birds so that story made me sad, i didnt get the allusion to humans though. what were you trying to say ckbejug
lol.
Second, before it was an awesome movie, The Thorn Birds was/is my favorite book of all time. and i've read a lot of books. It is by Colleen McCullough. This book tops every single other book I have read. Ray Bradbury, Oscar Wilde, Tolkein, C.S. Lewis, Kafka, even Dostoyevsky, have lots of great things to say. but none compares to the simplicity and tale of love and sorrow and sorrow in love and conflict and happiness and beauty that is 'The Thorn Birds'. It is a 530 page book I couldn't put down from page 1 to page 530. I thinK i finished it in a few hours. I know it took me all of but a day. and then I read it again.
As for the bird quote. The first paragraph (in my signature) comes from the prelude to the story and the second paragraph (in my signature) is the last paragraph of the book. However I don;t think you have to have read the book to understand the implications of the quote. Put in laymens terms, humans, we, hurt ourselves, we get ourselves into situations we know will have a hurtful outcome, but we can;t help it. We want what is in the immediate, knowing the ramifications what we do will cause us in the future, but we do it anyway. So, we 'put thorns in our breasts, we know, we understand' but we do it anyway. I mean how many times have you done something you know is clearly wrong for you, but you do it anyway? agreed?
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