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Originally Posted by SteveDallas
What are you reading?
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Well there's a list:
Boethius, "The Consolation of Philosophy" (3rd reading, love it)
Hannah Arendt, "The Life of the Mind" (3rd reading, love it)
Steven Pressfield, "The Tides of War"
William Faulkner, "Absalom, Absalom"
Susan Sonatg, "The Volcano Lover"
Sebastian Barry, "A Long Long Way"
Matthew Pearl, "The Dante Club" (love it so far)
I am going to highlight the books I don't like so far, in red. I am disappointed in Susan Sontag's attempt at fiction because I think all of her non-fiction is so wonderful and precise, but her fiction, not so much, so far.
I am having trouble reading fiction from the young male perspective and attaching any worth or value to it. So Absalom Absalom may not be great for me, but someone else might love it, like the friend that I got it from.
The point being, none of these would make me sexual fantasy prone. In fact I'm the most into the detective story, Dante Club, but there is so much talk of maggots and the disposition of the dead body that, well...sometimes I fall asleep with an image of the body as it is in the story. I had a hope with the Volcano Lover, but again, I might give up on it forever. The clipped, internal dialouge, that is supposed to set a quick pace, annoys me instead, and so far is just too stupid for me to try and read.