I'm currently trying to think of a way of not offending a co-worker when I have to explain why the terrible book she recommended me as lifechanging was awful.
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I'm currently trying to think of a way of not offending a co-worker when I have to explain why the terrible book she recommended me as lifechanging was awful.
I'm currently trying to think of a way of not offending a co-worker when I have to explain why the terrible book she recommended me as lifechanging was awful.
lie and say you liked it. thats what I'd doI'm currently trying to think of a way of not offending a co-worker when I have to explain why the terrible book she recommended me as lifechanging was awful.
Just finished The Crying of Lot 49. I think I might not be smart enough for Pynchon. Although I did enjoy it nonetheless; the characters, the wit and the prose.
Starting into Updike's Rabbit, Run now.
Ha, yeah totally get that. And I might be the same with something like Gravity's Rainbow. Wasn't that unanimously selected by the jury for the Pulitzer prize but the board rejected it because it was 'unreadable'?I'm almost finished this too. Found myself having to read sections out loud in my head (if you know what I mean) to make sense of the narrative. As with Inherent Vice (the movie) I'm now not even trying to follow the plot, but am just enjoying the ride. Not sure if I could take one of his longer efforts though.
Pynchon is a waste of time.I'm almost finished this too. Found myself having to read sections out loud in my head (if you know what I mean) to make sense of the narrative. As with Inherent Vice (the movie) I'm now not even trying to follow the plot, but am just enjoying the ride. Not sure if I could take one of his longer efforts though.
Ha, yeah totally get that. And I might be the same with something like Gravity's Rainbow. Wasn't that unanimously selected by the jury for the Pulitzer prize but the board rejected it because it was 'unreadable'?
Pretty sure yeah. There was no award given in '74That's hilarious if it's true!
I finally finished this one this evening (Fathers & Crows by William Vollmann). It was deadly but I think it'd have been better if I hadn't taken two months to read it. it was almost 1000 pages in hardback though, pain in the holding it up to read. I was sure I had ordered a paperback edition.I've just started Fathers & Crows by William Vollmann and I think it'll probably be the best thing ever.
Time said:TITLE: FATHERS AND CROWS
AUTHOR: WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN
PUBLISHER: VIKING; 990 PAGES; $30
THE BOTTOM LINE: The second bleak volume in a relentlessly pessimistic novel cycle about the coming of white men to North America.
At the age of 32, novelist William Vollmann displays the exasperating immaturities of a precocious teenager. He is a self-mythologizer who refers to himself with heavy irony as "William the Blind." He is utterly and humorlessly self-absorbed and believes his own sensibility to be unique. He rolls out for display every nut and grain that he has squirreled.
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