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bluegreen17) wrote2005-03-06 01:38 pm
bluegreen17) wrote2005-03-06 01:38 pm
booking my vacation
oh boy oh boy oh boy.
i just got a call from the library to tell me that neal stephenson's quicksilver had been returned and it was on hold for me. very cool,since i'm going to two libraries today to start off my week's vacation. it's been a long time since i've been in a book reading mode during a vacation. that is,that i'm wanting to read an entire book. i read all the time,but it's been a while since i've felt like investing my time on one thing. well,to be truthful,i'm still being a book slut. but the point is,i'm wanting to go back to reading a particular book right now. well,er,or maybe two. literary polyamory.
uh,i'm not explaining myself too well here,am i? if it's too chaotic for you,feel free to change the channel. i like things to make sense myself.
anyhow,i am on page 93 of cryptonomicon which i know is laughable because a)it doesn't sound like much,but for me to read 93 pages of the same book these days is amazing and b)it's a huge book - 900 pages.
still,hope springs eternal,and it is almost spring!
so,after going to the local library and returning some stuff and picking up quicksilver (another 900 pager! i must really love this guy's writing,and i do!) and scanning what's new and the dvds,i will then proceed to the next town over to go crazy at their library. our library is part of a co-op so i can use my library card at several different libraries,which i love. anyway,this particular library isn't too far away and i like it better than mine because they always have a lot more new stuff...and i especially adore going through their new nonfiction collection. they so often seem to have lots of books i've read about and wanted to read but didnt want to buy and my town library doesn't have them. i think their acquisitions librarian must have similar tastes as mine,or maybe the TOWN has similar tastes to mine(though i doubt it!) since the librarian is buying for the public. (and this is why i go through libraries and see so much stuff that i think is crap and i can't find certain classics that i think every library should have. libraries tend to buy what people want to read,and a lot of people have very very different tastes than i do. you know,after all these years,being different than the majority can get really annoying. oh,well,at least i know how to amuse myself.)
i just got a call from the library to tell me that neal stephenson's quicksilver had been returned and it was on hold for me. very cool,since i'm going to two libraries today to start off my week's vacation. it's been a long time since i've been in a book reading mode during a vacation. that is,that i'm wanting to read an entire book. i read all the time,but it's been a while since i've felt like investing my time on one thing. well,to be truthful,i'm still being a book slut. but the point is,i'm wanting to go back to reading a particular book right now. well,er,or maybe two. literary polyamory.
uh,i'm not explaining myself too well here,am i? if it's too chaotic for you,feel free to change the channel. i like things to make sense myself.
anyhow,i am on page 93 of cryptonomicon which i know is laughable because a)it doesn't sound like much,but for me to read 93 pages of the same book these days is amazing and b)it's a huge book - 900 pages.
still,hope springs eternal,and it is almost spring!
so,after going to the local library and returning some stuff and picking up quicksilver (another 900 pager! i must really love this guy's writing,and i do!) and scanning what's new and the dvds,i will then proceed to the next town over to go crazy at their library. our library is part of a co-op so i can use my library card at several different libraries,which i love. anyway,this particular library isn't too far away and i like it better than mine because they always have a lot more new stuff...and i especially adore going through their new nonfiction collection. they so often seem to have lots of books i've read about and wanted to read but didnt want to buy and my town library doesn't have them. i think their acquisitions librarian must have similar tastes as mine,or maybe the TOWN has similar tastes to mine(though i doubt it!) since the librarian is buying for the public. (and this is why i go through libraries and see so much stuff that i think is crap and i can't find certain classics that i think every library should have. libraries tend to buy what people want to read,and a lot of people have very very different tastes than i do. you know,after all these years,being different than the majority can get really annoying. oh,well,at least i know how to amuse myself.)
cryptonomicon
the beauty of it is,if you like how he writes,it's wonderful that it's so long. as well as the next three 900-pagers of his!
have you ever read tolkien's 'lord of the rings'? i love tolkien's writing because he is so descriptive that i felt like i was in middle earth when i read it. a friend of mine started to read them and hated the fact that tolkien would go on about the color of the trees and how the light played,etc etc,but that's what i loved about it!
neal stephenson has a really unique way of descibing things which i find delicious.i also am particularly interested in world war II and part of the book is set there. (so far it's set then and in modern day...don't know if they'll be another angle,though i would guess not,but that's just a guess.)
i picked it up because the people who liked it really really liked it,and that says something to me. i am so pleased that i found this writer--can you tell?