Another slow reading week. I apparently enjoy torturing myself with long books that I have trouble understanding. Finally got Poisonwood Bible back from Dustin’s, so I’ll probably finish it in the next day or two. But I’m struggling with Joyce’s Ulysses, and it makes me wonder why I ever thought I wanted to read it. But I’ll get through it, damn it.
- Jenna Starborn - Sharon Shinn
In other book news, ME has already hit the goal of 52 books by April, and a month early to boot. I’ve got eight more books to read to hit that goal, and if I give up on Ulysses for the time being, there’s no way I can’t do it.
Wow! Ulysses! I tried that once… didn’t get much past the 5th page (I’m I’m a Faulkner fan, so I’m used to odd prose).
When you finish Ulysses, might I suggest for your next long book The Infinite Jest. I haven’t read it, but it is huge, and as a novel actually has copious footnotes (even the footnotes have footnotes)!
I’d wait ’till after April, though, or make ME give you credit for at least 5 books for it. -Tony
ME isn’t very relenting like that–a book is a book is a book–so I’ll definitely have to wait on that. Because there is nothing I like least than being wrong.
And I have got to take a long-, difficult-book hiatus, or it might put me off reading for the rest of the year. But, I will definitely have to check out The Infinte Jest. Because I love footnoted footnotes.