Who’s ready for nightmares?!
I think Nick Hornby would approve of finishing this book in two days. Two days that included a full day of work, a hockey game on CBC and a day spent skiing. Actually, not much of the day was spent skiing as I spent almost two hours in the lodge reading over lunch.
Shakespeare Wrote for Money is a collection of Hornby’s articles for The Believer magazine. We’re given a list of the books he has purchased and read every month (which, as for so many of us, the books-bought list often surpasses the books-read list) with topics that are entertainingly all over the map, along with his thoughts on them, what he was doing while reading, and so on. It’s a bit like a better version of this site, as read to you by John Cusack. sigh.
The book also has a lovingly biting intro by Sarah Vowell. Vowell is the author of Assasination Vacation, a book that I haven’t yet read (for fear that I might not know nearly enough US history to fully get it). But it’s on my to-do list for when I cross the US in a winnebago one day. One day…
While visiting Analog, Banff’s new used book store, this afternoon I picked up The Road, by Cormac Mccarthy. Hornby describes it (about a father and son team wandering around an apacalyptic world finding things like babies on barbeques) as “one of the most miserable books ever written.” And it’s won the pulitzer prize? Sold!
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I think The Road is probably the hardest book I have ever read because of how miserable it is. When reading it before bed I had to skim ahead to be sure nothing too awful was going to happen so that I would be able to get to sleep. It’s a short book but it took me a long time to read because I needed a lot of breaks. Maybe Oscar has made me wimpy. It also made me think of zombie movies.
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