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reidmt

Damn Books!

Jul 13, 2005 12:32

During our vacation, Michelle and I went down to the city library to pick up a library card and some reading material. Despite the inviting architecture, the library had very few books that inspired me to read. I browsed the entire place, and came up with two: a novel from Pynchon that ultimately went unread and was not Gravity's Rainbow ( ( Read more... )

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telemonian_aias July 13 2005, 17:22:26 UTC

reidmt July 13 2005, 22:56:25 UTC

Yes, and ours is a particularly provincial library, with a rather large collection of westerns and Harlequin romances, neither of which I sampled. New books there stay in the new section for a year. Ouch.

MT

Holy hell, great minds, man. jaggergirl July 13 2005, 17:28:54 UTC

Mt. Reid, I can't believe it. I actually looked at Michelle's profile on Friendster last night and ALMOST wrote her an email, saying hello and asking her to tell you hello as well. That's really weird. Happy happenstance!

You were drunk a lot, weren't you.

Well, me too. And still am! Hooray! Meanwhile, B.E. Ellis can bite me. I know exactly what you mean about his work, which is impenetrable and completely self-indulgent. I'm still waiting on the Pynchon, but am working my way through Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum," so I figure that will do for the heavy reading until I feel ready to tackle the Pynchon.

I really like these Joan Didion essays, "Slouching Toward Bethlehem." You might dig 'em.

So why, exactly, are you working on bankruptcy pleadings?

Hope all's well!

Re: Holy hell, great minds, man. reidmt July 13 2005, 23:08:46 UTC

You're stalking me.

And I think you just saw me when I was drunk; I did spend most days pretty sober, especially in the at least 12 hours of detox I put myself through before every orchestra rehearsal.

I'm looking forward to finding a copy of Gravity's Rainbow. The Pynchon I got was Vineland, not even Crying Lot, so I didn't even start, so confounded was I from the BEE. I enjoyed Foucault's Pendulum a great deal, but not from any literary perspective. I think it deserves another reading or six before I can start to fully digest it.

I was really disappointed with the Ellis. Donna Tartt thanks him in something, and I ate up Secret History and the Little Friend, the latter of which was quite odd, and so I thought I'd give Ellis a shot. As I said, it started out ok, and then just unraveled. Unlike Infinite Jest, which is completely unraveled and the reader spends half of the book looking for a plot to coalesce ( ... )

I too am a legal eagle blue_hoodie July 14 2005, 14:28:24 UTC

You'll be pleased to know I'm currently temping in a hospital's Risk Management department. Subpoenas and claims disputes left right and center. Doesn't quite inspire me to go to law school just yet, but I'll keep an open mind...