I started reading again. I quit for a while, during the roadtrip. But I'm back with a vengence. I read "I, Robot" and "Count Zero", and now I'm reading "Everything is Illuminated".
The book I'm reading now is really gut-renching at parts, very emotionally poignant, and quite good. I don't think I'll read anymore books like it for a while. I think I simply don't like emotional books. They influence the way I feel about things, and it's isolating when your life and the stuff that is made to go on in your head don't connect. So I don't really want my inner life charged and supplimented right now. I'll finish this book; I'm 194 pages in. But if I'm going to read, I'm going to read about big concepts that don't try to fit themselves inside, but are content to simply surround you, however you feel.
Oh, and to make this interactive, tell me about your favorite book that is not about people, and especially not about their rich emotional lives and junk.
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The book I'm reading now is really gut-renching at parts, very emotionally poignant, and quite good. I don't think I'll read anymore books like it for a while. I think I simply don't like emotional books. They influence the way I feel about things, and it's isolating when your life and the stuff that is made to go on in your head don't connect. So I don't really want my inner life charged and supplimented right now. I'll finish this book; I'm 194 pages in. But if I'm going to read, I'm going to read about big concepts that don't try to fit themselves inside, but are content to simply surround you, however you feel.
Oh, and to make this interactive, tell me about your favorite book that is not about people, and especially not about their rich emotional lives and junk.
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godzuki:
um, does To Your Scattered Bodies Go count? It's about simulacrums of people. Kinda. Eh, maybe not.
shayne:
i'm always drawn to books that rip my insides out. i love them but i'm wary of them too, they do tend to affect you long after...