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I know, I know. One book at a time. I needed to break Wallace up. I went to the Library about a month ago now and picked up this comic book. Similar to Wallace in a way I thought every page was a work of art. And it is. The drawing is incredible. Go see for yourself. The story is picking up too. An artists unique ability to see beyond the M.O.B (Mean, Ordinary, Boring) comes through.

Relapsed. Glad to have this book by my side. To read this book is to sit with Wallace and listen to his mind unfold.

There's something to scoff at or laugh about on EACH page. Wallace's verbal dexterity astounds.

Passed the class ;~) Book is great. Equally funny and informative. Lots of wisdom for riding safely and well!

A foray into Motorcycling!

Brutal and wonderful at the same time.

Such a multilayered book! We get two perspectives of one couple (Tomas and Tereza), a second couple (Franz and Sabina), and in the backdrop there is an Occupation by Russians. Throughout the book there's a stunning amount of psychoanalysis injected with philosophical musings. It's a wonderful book.

How badly I want to have my story narrated by Kundera! What would he say?! What philosophical concerns would my illuminate? Maybe that’s a good goal: to live as though Kundera will narrate you, to live purposefully. I don’t know. I’m really enjoying this read.

Lovin it. Such a meta-read. Love getting my hand held through the story. Multiperspective and philosophical. The narrator is both there and above watching the story unfold. Characters are scandalous… I love it. So much drama and sex and existential ponderings. Great read so far.

A gripping read so far. A philosophy brought to life in literature and allowed to fight itself…

Oh man, this is a wonderful book. How do we really connect with each other in a loving way? How do we perspeve our sense of authenticity at the same time? That's a struggle I'm having with this read. But it's not about the book, it's about me...

I put this set down and will return after a non-fiction break.

I'm reading the 3rd Ed. of this book with a forward by Deepak Chopra. Book is marvelous so far. I did not realize how much of my communication was violent.

Book 3 was a bit all over the place and confused me towards the end. But hey Life, The Universe, and Everything is head spinning.

Almost at 420! This is a wild story. I like it.

I made it through Marx's theories and the Russian revolutions into modern Marxism. Although thinking they were clever, Marx's theories were a product of his time and didn't age well with modern capitalism and economics. His theories of Alienation still apply. Overall this is an okay introduction to Marxism (with fun cartoons!).

This is a great little graphic introduction to Marxist thought. I knew of Marxist theory before this goes into nuance and tells the continuing tale of how Marxism evolved into today's time with modern thinkers (I didn't get to that part yet).

Taking a break with this series to start on a Marxism book in prep for a Žižek talk later this month. I read the first two books in the story. Life, the Universe, and Everything is next! I'm looking forward to getting back into this story.

Ah. The plot thickens and thickens!

Utterly hilarious and mostly harmless.

What an amazing story. What a funny way to tell it!

Today I embark on the adventure of a lifetime and as my guide I take one book; The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Moved on to Silence after adventures in Emptiness. Love how this book is structured. Reduction. Emptiness. Silence....

Great book! Love the polemical writing style. I can feel the writer is a minimalist, but not the Marie Kondo kind. But a mindful minimalist who knows the deep historical roots of the movement that consistently evolves and erases itself in the process.

The story of Sisyphus is on Pg. 119. I'm almost there. What can I even say? Does it really matter?

Book is starting to make more sense. In short: Life is meaningless. Humans search for meaning in a meaningless world is absurd. The absurd mindset exists between humans and the world. Focusing too much on Meaninglessness or pure Reason misses the absurd. Killing ourselves is not a great solution to meaninglessness. To become radically aware is. To become so free is. To experience as much of life as possible is.

Barely making it through this book. My god. Am I stupid or is this unintelligible? Or both!

Really just slugging through this book. Every sentence needs two readings. Ugh.

This book explores a fundemental question: is life worth living when it all may be meaningless? I was sitting through a Crisis intervention lecture which was informing us of resources to provide folks in crisis to promote life, and a thought crossed my mind: but why save life? Wanting to save a life is making some implicit statement about life's value, namely that to be alive is more valuble than to be dead. Why?

Reading each page twice!