I read Gravity's Rainbow. Didn't much like it, but that's when I was younger and foolish enough to believe that if you start a book you should finish it. I've repressed most of it and only have a vague memory of a scene involving a light bulb and another scene where some perverted general or something eats the poo as some woman excretes it likening it to biscuits fresh and warm from the oven. Pynchon was one messed up mother.

Now, when I realize I'm not enjoying a book, I'm much quicker to give it up. Take for instance Ulysses. I got about 30 or 50 pages into that when I went to pick it up, and looked at some of the others in my to read pile, and decided screw it - that's one I'm just not motivated to finish.


Haven't even tried Infinite Jest yet although I think it may be buried on my Amazon wishlist somewhere.

That one I did finish and it pains me that I'll never get that time back to do something useful instead.

Edited by author 01-02-2003 11:54 AM
Here's a secret for ya:

I never finished A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius either.

Edited by author 01-02-2003 11:18 AM
-finish Infinite Jest

I'm in that boat as well. Lately, I've wondered why I want to even try. I just picked up Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men and found it more my speed. Infinite Jest is a book I've been trying to get through for about four years now. I pick it up. I put it down. I pick it up. I put it down. Sometimes I don't look at it for months and realize that I need to start over. Between these sessions I end up reading five or six other novels.

I've figured out what it is. While Wallace's writing is a treat, there's not much meat to his characters. It's not that I find the book challenging, it's that, much like the attempts I've made at reading the other most talked about book of the 20th century: Gravity's Rainbow, I find that, after about 100 pages or so, that I just don't give much of a shit anymore.

I'd say that that was a symptom of internet overexposure--specifically due to the Site That Shall Go Unnamed, and that no, you're not bad. But, I know you better than that, so, yes, [adam is bad].

Am I a bad person for not thinking of a spa treatment whenever I see the word "facial"?

I can help with # 12, 14, 15, 19, 21, and 24. (The Wheelbarrow is always a crowd-pleaser. An ottoman or other low piece of furniture can be helpful on the first attempt.)

As for # 10, I offer the words of Lennon & McCartney: "And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make"....

Wow!

That's a lot of resolutions!
I wish you luck.
I have only one... to leave this town.

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Oh. Juggling is really hard. In my experience, you're either born with that ability, or not. But I might be wrong.
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Ryan imtimidates you? Ryan's a cinch! He has height and good looks, but not as much willpower!

When dealing with Ryan, let your mantra be....

NIGGA, PLEASE.

That's how I deal with that Alton Guy...

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