Tilting windmills
I have a list where I keep all the books I want to read and all the books that I have read and from this list at my current rate, I should be done with everything in a little less than eight years. Of the books in the completed section, only about one in six actually started on the list so I keep moving these other books in front of the ones I want to read. It will probably be more like forty-eight years before I finish everything on the list. Am I ever going to finish Don Quixote? I've been on page 484 for over a year now.I was really hoping to absorb all this information and then use it for something, but if I'm eighty-six when I'm done, I might as well just forget it. I think I have forgotten most of what I've read, but I'm hoping it flows from me in some subconscious stream of pseudo-plagiarism. Is it really stealing if you don't do it on purpose? If that defense doesn't work, I'll claim it was satire.
That doesn't require footnotes.
Labels: Don Cheadle, Don Quixote, Quixotic, Sancho
posted by Aaron at 4/29/2006 12:39:00 AM
3 Comments:
dont worry, bro. i am not smart by any measure, but i do like to read voraciously, and i could never finish kafka's metamorphosis (like 80 pages long) or the prince by nicolo how-ever-you-spell-his-last-name (100 pages or so). The prince is really dry and boring, but I really dig kafka and still could not finish it. on the other side of that coin, i have read most all steinbeck's works, more than once. Never did the Don though. i will look into that. isn't it a series of 4 books?
Doctor!
Thanks for the commiseration! I've read almost everything by Kafka and The Prince, but not much Steinbeck. Quixote is one book in two parts (126 total chapters), published (and mostly written) ten years apart. You should read it not only because it's really the first modern novel, but because it is also one of the best. You will find no other character in literature quite like the knight. He is chivalry personified to a fault.
Thanks for reading my blog, and thanks for the comments.
I strongly recommend Steinbeck, but have to warn you, that guy breaks hearts. not all, but most of his stories will suck you in, entrap you mentally, make you feel and love the characters and then proceeds to kill them in the most depressing of ways. "the red pony" and "of mice and men" are great examples of how he hurts his readers. "grapes of wrath" also...heart breaking, but unbelievably brilliant writing.
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