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Indeed! It's not that he uses difficult words, he uses the perfect word. I just happen to have to look up the perfect word when it comes to Eco.

I wouldn't touch Eco without a good dictionary. Not just concise, no no. ;)

Got your dictionary handy? :D

Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneakers and a big cowboy hat, happened to pass throughNorfolk, Virginia. --Thomas Pynchon, V.

I finished Ulysses. Easily the most challenging read I've ever had and not always in a good way. I don't know how to properly rate it or review it so I won't. At least right now I can't/won't. Perhaps after a bit of fermentation I'll come back to this. If the book stays with me, and right...

Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon arrived today. I'll be finishing Ulysses tonight and starting V., Pynchon's first novel, on the day that his latest, and possibly last?, work arrived in the mail. Good luck with Pendulum MC!

Talk Radio discussion on Pynchon, particularly Against the Day

Life of Pi

Everybody got paid by the word at that time. Dickens managed to be timeless doing it.

Gravity's Rainbow Wiki

That book isn't fiction.

Yes and no. Important to me because I enjoy reading so I want to read as much as possible. No because it's not important to compare to people here. Reading tastes are too varied. Yeah I could increase my quantity by reading a pile of teen fantasy/thrillers/pop-mass and sticking to short...

You monster! Pynchon to children?! You monster! I agree. Granted my time management skills are lacking but even if I were better organized I could see adding maybe another ten books. I don't presume my reading speed to be that far away from a seasoned readers average. Let's see some...

When it was talked about reading more than one book at once I said that reading more than one at a time slows me down. I can wrap my mind around the different books but overall if I had read them seperately they would be completed faster. Perhaps that would work for you?

Borrowed The New Bloomsday Book by Harry Blamires from the library.

So this thread with its 133 books will take you 4 years and 4 months to get through roughly? :rolleyes:

The new Penguin Deluxe Classic edition of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow with cover by Frank Miller:

A Tales of Two Cities or Oliver Twist? I find the prose, tone, characters, plots and message all very interesting. Dickens isn't for everybody. If you find he isn't for you remember to phrase it properly. Dickens isn't dull, you may find him dull but he's not dull.

To borrow your words, fair enough, if a conversation isn't going to develop in a certain direction that doesn't mean one shouldn't develop at all. There is nothing wrong with reading trashy novels and I hope I've never given that impression. I'm bothered when people dress up the garbage to...

Indeed abecedarian! When I started Crime and Punishment I was intimidated. I made it through. The rest of Dostoevsky become more and more comfortable as I get through it. My first Dickens novel was Hard Times, I found that difficult but after getting through it Dickens feels like home to me...