Why Am I Online?
I have too many books and lack the time to read them all.
Okay, that's not necessarily true. Do over.
I have too many books, and I'd rather spend time on the internet, watching tv, napping, "MySpacing," or otherwise fucking off than reading.
I did manage to finish Camus' The Stranger just recently, and within a few days on breaks at work, or at home.
My current list seems daunting, for the fact that about three are philosophy books, which means I can't read two of those at once. I don't want to confuse myself, because they are rather closely related. [Sidenote: I can't be bothered reading one book at a time. I need about two or three to skip around on to keep my interest. (I sound like a cheating lover now.) I can't explain it; it's something I've always done, and my dad admitted that he's the same way.]
I think I'm going to work on them in three sets, in this order:
ONE
Casebook in Abnormal Psychology
Tales of Ordinary Madness; Charles Bukowski
Fear and Trembling; Soren Kierkegaard
TWO
Texts and Commentary; Hegel
In Cold Blood; Truman Capote
Catch-22; Joseph Heller (There's very little keeping my interest with this one, so I may have to kick it out, and add a new book.)
THREE
Narcissus and Goldmund; Hermann Hesse
Smoke and Mirrors; Neil Gaiman
Discourse On Method; Rene Descartes
FOUR
The Philosophy of Communism; Charles J. McFadden, O.S.A., Ph.D.
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight; Vladimir Nabokov
(And maybe some erotica, because I have two unread books of it.)
I'd better get crackin'... these books won't read themselves. At least the summer has come to a close, and things have slowed down a bit. Maybe with the arrival of the holidays and winter, I'll have more time to relax with books and tea. That would be super. Now all I need is a good pair of footie jammies. ^_^
So, again I ask: Why am I online?
Okay, that's not necessarily true. Do over.
I have too many books, and I'd rather spend time on the internet, watching tv, napping, "MySpacing," or otherwise fucking off than reading.
I did manage to finish Camus' The Stranger just recently, and within a few days on breaks at work, or at home.
My current list seems daunting, for the fact that about three are philosophy books, which means I can't read two of those at once. I don't want to confuse myself, because they are rather closely related. [Sidenote: I can't be bothered reading one book at a time. I need about two or three to skip around on to keep my interest. (I sound like a cheating lover now.) I can't explain it; it's something I've always done, and my dad admitted that he's the same way.]
I think I'm going to work on them in three sets, in this order:
ONE
Casebook in Abnormal Psychology
Tales of Ordinary Madness; Charles Bukowski
Fear and Trembling; Soren Kierkegaard
TWO
Texts and Commentary; Hegel
In Cold Blood; Truman Capote
Catch-22; Joseph Heller (There's very little keeping my interest with this one, so I may have to kick it out, and add a new book.)
THREE
Narcissus and Goldmund; Hermann Hesse
Smoke and Mirrors; Neil Gaiman
Discourse On Method; Rene Descartes
FOUR
The Philosophy of Communism; Charles J. McFadden, O.S.A., Ph.D.
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight; Vladimir Nabokov
(And maybe some erotica, because I have two unread books of it.)
I'd better get crackin'... these books won't read themselves. At least the summer has come to a close, and things have slowed down a bit. Maybe with the arrival of the holidays and winter, I'll have more time to relax with books and tea. That would be super. Now all I need is a good pair of footie jammies. ^_^
So, again I ask: Why am I online?