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This entry was originally going to be a comment on
toruokada's LJ, but it sort of wandered off-topic and I didn' t want to muddy things up for him. He mentioned a book by Don DeLillo (Falling Man), prompting me to remember my own brief experience reading DeLillo. Just one book, The Body Artist, and the short of it was that I wasn't a big fan. Not really gonna go into it, but it just didn't say anything to me. Maybe it was DeLillo, maybe it was me, but we were not a good match.
When I am introduced to an author's work through a book I didn't like, it puts me in a bit of a quandry. Do you try again and potentially expose yourself to another bad book-experience? This seems like the fair way to go, but I always ask myself if I'm just reading the second book solely to denounce the author, particularly if I didn't find anything in the first book to lead me to believe I'd enjoy a second. Giving up doesn't seem right, either, like I'm permenantly selling someone short for one story not agreeing with me.
Unrelated-at-all-ly, I was jamming with Mark today and while improvising a solo, he played the main theme from Loreena McKennitt's "The Bonny Swans" note-for-note. He had no idea what I was talking about when I told him, but it amused me all the same. Anyway.
toruokada's LJ, but it sort of wandered off-topic and I didn' t want to muddy things up for him. He mentioned a book by Don DeLillo (Falling Man), prompting me to remember my own brief experience reading DeLillo. Just one book, The Body Artist, and the short of it was that I wasn't a big fan. Not really gonna go into it, but it just didn't say anything to me. Maybe it was DeLillo, maybe it was me, but we were not a good match.
When I am introduced to an author's work through a book I didn't like, it puts me in a bit of a quandry. Do you try again and potentially expose yourself to another bad book-experience? This seems like the fair way to go, but I always ask myself if I'm just reading the second book solely to denounce the author, particularly if I didn't find anything in the first book to lead me to believe I'd enjoy a second. Giving up doesn't seem right, either, like I'm permenantly selling someone short for one story not agreeing with me.
Unrelated-at-all-ly, I was jamming with Mark today and while improvising a solo, he played the main theme from Loreena McKennitt's "The Bonny Swans" note-for-note. He had no idea what I was talking about when I told him, but it amused me all the same. Anyway.