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Originally Posted by evollove
You know, I feel like such a fraud. I haven't read anything in months. I think literacy has plasticity and I'm in a lull, nowhere near peak performance. I can't believe I'm the same person who could once knock off 200 pages in a day. I haven't read more than one page since October, I think.
And for the past few years it was nothing but short stories. Before that, a very long Updike binge (21 novels, way over 100 stories).
I'd like to return to literature. Learn how to read again. It's the schoolboy in me. I'm inspired to read a James I haven't yet. Then Conrad's Under Western Eyes, which I've wanted to read for, well, years. (And I own a fucking copy! What's wrong with me? Did I really have to watch those stupid SNL episodes?) A Flaubert. Trollop for laughs. Maybe give Woolf's heretofore unreadable The Waves another go. Take a few days to read all of Euripides. Then I'll switch it up and turn to Kafka, Becket, Borges, Nabokov for new flavors. But nothing past 1950.
(That list: the cracker patriarchy really was a bad motherfucker, wasn't he?)
Hm. The more I think of it: is this tempting or would it be tedious? I might be a little unsure.
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Don't worry it happens. I'm coming out of my non-reading phase after months of not reading. One day the books you couldn't imagine reading a few weeks back suddenly look like the best idea you could do.
Seeing as I never contribute to this thread I'll add my current reading-
Brilliant so far. I've read a fair few books about film/films, but this one has to rank as one of the best out there. He manages to make each film he talks about the next one you want to watch.
I finished this last week and you guys should totally check it out-
A comic book that really is something else. There's no general narrative, there's no heroes, there's no major characters. Basically it focuses on one corner of a room in a house, and follows that corner through the decades. Mcquire zooms from 2030 all the way back thousands of years ago and the people there at the time. From a bison who sat in the very spot before the house was ever built, to a child simply playing with a toy. It may seem like you wouldn't be able to a handle on the characters that appear (sometimes for one page, sometimes spreading over many pages), but each person you find out yourself trying to figure a story to them. Here's a shot of a page to give you an example.
Brilliant. Done by the bassist in Liquid Liquid oddly enough.