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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 ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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.