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Was hoping to finish this book this year, but that would be wasteful speed-reading at this point. Hopefully I can manage 100 pages a week.

Great read. I still don't really know why the author is putting himself, and others, into such dangerous situations. Could never imagine it myself.

Better than I had expected so far.

Great writing!

I might try Laxness another time, but this was undoubtedly a bad place to start - a political satire heavy on you-had-to-be-there bullshit. Maybe I've got to read the Sagas first.

Reading past the mark where I originally dropped this series. I wonder how much of that decision was rooted in the disappointment of Rand and Berelain not banging. She definitely left an impression on 16 year old Jack!

So much better than I remember it being as a teenager. Or has my taste worsened?

Struggling to enjoy this nearly as much as I would've liked. If there has been 50 characters introduced so far in this novel (and I think there's been more) I only really have a bead on about 20 of them.

when things started happening, i felt confused and afraid

Let's fucking go!!!!!
I'll never understand why prose like this has gone out of style, replaced by:
-Are you hungry, he said
-No
Well yeah, I guess a bit hungry
I'll eat. I'll have a nibble.
-Do you want pizza so, he said. Cavernous eyes. I yielded.

Tiring...I wish I'd read it 9 or 10 years ago!

The Stories of Jacob complete. Not sure what to make of it as a standalone book, but of course it isn't really.

We are not born, my dear daughter, to pursue our own small personal happiness, for we are not separate, independent, self-subsisting individuals, but links in a chain...

My brain hurts from too much Brainio

This is absolutely the funniest book I've ever read

Part IV of Proustblogging. It's beginning to get a little too real for me,

https://humanbeingman.wordpress.com/2...

Wrapping up the 'Combray' chapter, with more thoughts on wasted and wasting time. https://humanbeingman.wordpress.com/2...

Day 2 of my staccato and directionless rambling as I read Proust, presented for the pleasure of no-one:
https://humanbeingman.wordpress.com/2...

day one of Proustblogging available here:
https://humanbeingman.wordpress.com/2...

Apparently I read this is 2017 (no I did not, though my eyes likely passed over every page)
This year I’m reading the whole thing!

...the fact that Stace laughs and laughs about the photos of people in flared jeans grappling with each other, but underneath I think she’s scared to death and that’s why she reads it over and over again, hoping she’ll get less scared with familiarity...