Liam Burke > Recent Status Updates

Loyal followers of the Liam Burke Goodreads account, something has gone wrong. I deleted the shelf of books I own because I neither kept it updated nor derived any use from it, and Goodreads moved all of those books into Read. Have I read Roget’s Thesaurus? No! Have I read most of the 243 books now in Read? I have not. Will I manually remove them all? Probably no, but I will suffer no accusations of stolen valor.

Returning to this beautiful beast after a hiatus. How I’ve missed you, Leon Forrest, and how I’ve missed the myth-hell-dream-scapes you lay upon the page.

Whether this book has hit its stride or I have hit my stride reading it I do not know, but I now feel the foreward momentum that was previously lacking. Some pages are so rich with insight that I struggle not to underline everything.

Reading this book is like trying to swim through honey. Sweet if you taste a little. Overwhelming in large gulps. Hard to make forward progress.

Trying to keep up with the genius that Forrest lays on the page is taxing. I may not be cut out for it.

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Actual banger.