Binx & Adams

Personally, I found both of these characters to be boring and lifeless.  I guess that was the point of the stories though.  They are both looking for something more.  Binx is a guy who loves movies and seems to put everything after that.  He ends up being his own worst enemy.  In the same realm of things, Adams is on a search for something more than the home-from-war man with seemingly nothing left.  They just kind of roam around.  Honestly, I missed a lot of the meaning and symbolism because I was so lost in the emptiness.  There are two ways to read these stories-- read into its symbolism and connect to it, or feel distant and lost, only to discover that in that way, you are connecting to it.  By the end of the stories, I felt just as lost as they did-- for them more than with them.  They both make the reader question what they're doing in life.  It all goes back to the point of all of our books this semester- where is the meaning and what is it?