Interlude
Nothing I have read so far is as good as the type of novels I normally read--by Harry Mathews, Gilbert Sorrentino, Murakami, and a few select others. A few novels I've started--by Faulkner and G. Eliot--are a bit more promising. My plan is to read quality literary type novels checked out from the public library, avoiding novels I've read before, and not repeating authors more than a few times each.
If a person read novels instead of watching television for two hours a night, that person would in a few years' time be very well read.
Do you have any Henry James on your list?
ResponderEliminarI have no list. I'm just reading where my readings take me. I'm trying not to do too much re-reading, so Henry might have to take a back seat to others, unless I can think of one by him I've never read. Maybe The Golden Bowl?
ResponderEliminarI'm loving Adam Bede and Light in August.
"The Golden Bowl" surpassed my brain-limit: I couldn't read anything more complicated than "The National Enquirer" for a month. I love James' nouvelles, his long stories, like "The Altar of the Dead."
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