lazarus
Blue Crack Supplier
I hope everyone here has seen The Squid and The Whale.
This could get sticky.
This could get sticky.
Come on man, it's the book thread...pretend you're in a library.
Shhh!
I hope you do, and that you enjoy it.....and I've always found that when I revisit books I read due to mandates, I end up with a completely different take than I originally had....sometimes for the better, sometimes for worse. I know people that refuse to re-read books and I cannot really understand that at all. I'm not a big fan of The Pearl, either, by the way.
I am currently reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.
The paperback copy I have is 909 pages
Word. I'm always on the hunt for more short story collections. I recently ordered a collection of Richard Yates work, his writing is so bleak or melancholy, but sometimes it helps to look at the world that way and Yates is a top notch writer.
I haven't read it - it's languishing on my shelves, with about 100 other books crying out to be read. I've heard mixed things about it, though.
As for my dissing of 1,000 page books, I guess I should have just said that I decided I wasn't interested enough in this first man in Rome to read 1,000 pages about him. I'll watch PBS' I, Claudius instead to get my Rome fix.
I highly recommend Jhumpa Lahiri's first book, Interpreter of Maladies. It's a relatively short collection, but the writing is stunningly gorgeous without being too over the top. Some of the stories handle bleak subject matter, but do so in a way that leaves you glad that you've read it. She has a new collection out that I need to pick up. I liked her novel The Namesake, but I think she's more of a story writer.
I actually love long books. Assuming they're good, of course. I see no difference between reading three 333 page books or one 1,000 page book.
Anyone read Infinite Jest? That was 1,000 pages well worth the trip.
Too bad David Foster Wallace hasn't written another novel since.