tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post4671873707961330350..comments2024-03-24T09:36:51.494-04:00Comments on delagar: What I'm Reading Nowdelagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18197857250240640822noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-62703039628027611822016-01-04T17:53:46.350-05:002016-01-04T17:53:46.350-05:00J.L, Allan: It's wonderful!J.L, Allan: It's wonderful!delagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18197857250240640822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-89089767226550865292016-01-04T17:14:46.766-05:002016-01-04T17:14:46.766-05:00Thanks for the reminder on The Long List Anthology...Thanks for the reminder on The Long List Anthology. Just picked it up and can't wait to read it!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08888290392610811105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-5736357854806587532016-01-04T10:33:33.717-05:002016-01-04T10:33:33.717-05:00Ye gads - sorry for the typos in my original comme...Ye gads - sorry for the typos in my original comment. Writing on my phone... ugh.<br /><br />Anyway, yes, I have tried to get into some "capital L" Literature that is recent. The only person I really love that's contemporary is dead -- David Foster Wallace -- even even then, I stick to the short stories and essays. I tried to get into Infinite Jest, and I fell asleep and never went back. Maybe someday. <br /><br />There are lots of people I feel like I "should" read, but many of them seem pretentious and overbearing. Meh. Maybe I need some better recommendations? Who knows. All I know is that I have precious little time to read for fun, and if I'm going to do it, I don't want it to be terribly difficult work. I have enough of that at ... work. :) Fie upon this quiet life!https://www.blogger.com/profile/12047096700049201873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-79441697817889797752016-01-04T10:10:18.000-05:002016-01-04T10:10:18.000-05:00I also love genre fiction! Now and then, I still r...I also love genre fiction! Now and then, I still read "literary" fiction (wtf that means), but more and more often these days what's being published as mainstream or non-genre fiction is turgid, overwritten, and dull.<br /><br />Well, 90% of everything is crap, so it's no surprise 90% of literary fiction would be too, I guess.delagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18197857250240640822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-62698757360935575702016-01-04T07:49:54.474-05:002016-01-04T07:49:54.474-05:00I read Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie. Anyone ...I read Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie. Anyone with a passing knowledge of Duchess of Malfi would enjoy it. I read Wolf at the Table - the only Augustin Burrouggs book I'd never read. I also read Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes, which turns out to be the first novel of a trilogy. The third is being published this summer. I'd like to pick up the second one in the meantime. I also picked up King's recently published new collection of short stories and finished the first one, Mile 81. It's been sort of unintentional, but I've been reading a lot more genre fiction. I love it! Fie upon this quiet life!https://www.blogger.com/profile/12047096700049201873noreply@blogger.com