goal for what's left of this year - mark my words
start and finish reading a novel.
i've been reading graphic novels regularly for the last 2 year or so; before then was short stories and plays; before then, i can't remember. i think the last novel i read was david foster wallace's broom of the system and before then a bunch of pkd novels and possibly (vague recollections here) jean paul satre's road to freedom trilogy (which has yet to be returned to me. grr!)
i want to start and finish a novel sometime this year. i no longer have to read copious amount of dull legal writings & research materials, so its about time i start enjoying read long, extended pages of words again. i haven't done it for so long! and i used to be a prodigious novel reader. ah well.
i'll start with something light before i dive into pychon or something of that ilk. i tried that earlier this year, and it just hurt my brain. it leaked brain ooze everywhere.
start and finish reading a novel.
i've been reading graphic novels regularly for the last 2 year or so; before then was short stories and plays; before then, i can't remember. i think the last novel i read was david foster wallace's broom of the system and before then a bunch of pkd novels and possibly (vague recollections here) jean paul satre's road to freedom trilogy (which has yet to be returned to me. grr!)
i want to start and finish a novel sometime this year. i no longer have to read copious amount of dull legal writings & research materials, so its about time i start enjoying read long, extended pages of words again. i haven't done it for so long! and i used to be a prodigious novel reader. ah well.
i'll start with something light before i dive into pychon or something of that ilk. i tried that earlier this year, and it just hurt my brain. it leaked brain ooze everywhere.
posted by stu willis at
4:05 am
6 Comments:
I haven't read a novel in ages either. My goal is to read something fictional--be it a short story or whatever--before the year is out as well.
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Anonymous, at Fri Oct 21, 08:42:00 am AEST
You guys always know where you can get prodigious recommendations, if you want them....
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Anonymous, at Sat Oct 22, 03:23:00 am AEST
hahaha. shoot.
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stu willis, at Sun Oct 23, 08:12:00 pm AEST
While it's not a great work of literature in the classical sense, you should definitely give House Of Leaves a shot, especially since Nick Rombes has brough it up so many times over at Digital Poetics.
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Anonymous, at Mon Oct 24, 04:28:00 am AEST
Damien's probably already given you this advice, but The God of Small Things is well worth a read.
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James, at Tue Oct 25, 02:38:00 pm AEST
I haven't, actually. Because Stuart would just come back with "there's a book about you?"
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Anonymous, at Tue Nov 01, 08:29:00 am AEDT
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