Wednesday, December 17, 2003
What's on My Bookshelf
A few weeks ago, I made the daring yet impulsive purchase of William Vollmann's new treatise on violence, Rising Up and Rising Down. It's a pretty impressive package, looking more like law books than anything else on my shelves, but now it sits there waiting for me to even crack a single spine. Ah, too much to read and not nearly enough time. Well, time and the fact that I finally picked up House of Leaves. I feel that I'm now in an ever expanding, hidden passageway looking for an exit. Not to say that the novel (if you wish to call it that) isn't good. I'm still trying to figure that one out. But it is sucking away my energy. Now that Christmas is looming and the annual parental visit is right around the corner, I'm in serious trouble. Vollmann will have to wait, indefinitely.
Up next, the world's largest book, ever? Who knows.
posted by Jeff 12/17/2003
