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[ritaxis]

So I'm still struggling through The War of the nd of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa. It's my bathroom book so I don't have to read more than a couple pages at a time. It's hard for me because Vargas Llosa is really delighted to tell me everything terrible about these people. Everybody;s awful and violent and filthy.  But because personhead pantryslut is doing it and it reminded me, I'm reading Moby Dick too. That's on my tablet and I'm reading it in bed and all the time, because hot damn this is good stuff. I'm finally really enjoying a book! Woo hoo!

What you have to know is that it's one of those poignant standup comedy routines. Somebody like Bobcat Goldthwaite is reciting this stuff to you, or somebody more deadpan and dryer. Even the dramatic parts. Especially the dramatic parts. That's how it should be dramatized, not with some too-portentous-for-my-shirt movie.A standup comic should read out some chapters each day until it's done. Maybe a marathon. I don't know.

Comments

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE SO RIGHT. Please pardon the all caps but SO RIGHT.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

YES I AM.
But I am not current on all the best standup comics. Who should read Moby Dick?

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I'm not at all current either. The only one that leapt to mind is the ubiquitous Louis CK but there must be someone even better suited.