J.D. Salinger. What can I say? He has meant more to me than any author, except maybe Jack Kerouac on his good days. I owe my literary “career,” such as it is (not to mention a certain long-winded writing style), to Catcher In the Rye and Buddy Glass. I know I’m not the only crumby [...]
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28 Jan 10
24 Jan 10
I’m done. I’m sick of Proust. Sick of his rambling go-nowhere prose. All that BS I laid on before? Total crap. My metaphor of exploration was based on the idea that my exploring would be rewarded with some shiny treasure; instead, it just goes on and on and hardly says a thing. I swear I [...]
21 Dec 09
There is no greater phrase to a poetry enthusiast. There is nothing so satisfying as picking up a single thick slab of poetry, and saying, this is what this person was (or “is,” maybe). Just look at this one I picked up the other day:
That is a serious chunk of poetry right there son! Five [...]
10 Dec 09
I’m still working my way, slowly but surely, through volume one of In Search of Lost Time, Swann’s Way. As expected the book’s plot (I’m assuming there will be something of a plot sometime soon) develops at a glacial pace, however Proust has announced his themes of time, memory, dream, and epiphany clearly and quickly. [...]
15 Nov 09
After staring down Anna Karenina last year I crested a daunting hill and looked down into the valley on the far side. The summit was the overbearing weight and patience needed to tackle the long novel. The valley below was the relief I felt that not only is reading a 700-800-plus page novel not difficult [...]
30 Oct 09
Wandering through the bookstore the other day something a bit out of place caught my eye. Something…fuzzy. Turns out, it’s the Dave Eggers novelization of the “Where the Wild Things Are” movie! Usually the phrase “movie novelization” is enough to make me barf on the spot but, I JUST HAD TO HAVE IT. I mean…it [...]
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17 Oct 09
Today I finished the third book in the trilogy of David James Duncan’s major works: River Teeth. The other two books are The River Why and The Brothers K, both of which I cannot possibly recommend highly enough. I recommend the third book just as highly, however I would read the two novels first before [...]
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27 Jun 09
This is an APB out to all readers and friends…I’m going through my bookshelf today, sending some things to Half Price Books, and I’m just noticing that a number of my favorites, which have been handed out to friends along the way, are missing from my shelves. So, if you read this blog, and I [...]
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9 Apr 08
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or desire for more.
-Gabriel Zaid, So Many Books
I like this quote. I love it, in fact. A few months back I ran out of space on my big bookshelf. The glut of books that accompany the Christmas/birthday season didn’t help [...]
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