Okay, Rant gets an atta boy for outing you as the porn star and you're gonna sue me for watching the movies??? Geesh...cancel my orders for the Gutenberg AND For Whom the Bell Tolls...hurumph...movie stars....
Yes Matt, Saramago definitely takes some getting used to... actually though I find that one can adapt to his endless structure fairly quickly. I think it's because the author really knows his story. In the pic I am reading Baltasar & Blimunda (as you know) and I think it was one of the two of his I enjoyed least. The other being The Stone Raft. Don't get me wrong, I liked these books, but I like his others, better, I think. He is just incredible.
When I was browsing at the boostore, I felt Baltasar & Blimunda is not really up my alley so I never got it. I like the way Saramago kneads his story to get you hooked at the beginning.
All The Names and The Double start off like mystery.Have you read The Double by Dostoevsky?
Have not read The Double by Dostoevsky Matt. The only stuff by him I have read is The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot. I prefer Tolstoy to Dostoevsky, when it comes to the Great Russians. They are both so incredible though.
I don’t believe that there is any involvement with the world I could find that would turn me from the immersions of fiction.
Great quote and nice picture. I hope you're wearing sunscreen :)
ReplyDeleteI am in the middle of loving Saramago's Seeing right now.
Ha! I KNEW I recognized you from somewhere!
ReplyDeletestefanie: Saramago ROCKS!
ReplyDeleterantandroar: Yes!
cleo: Should I contact my lawyer?
Okay, Rant gets an atta boy for outing you as the porn star and you're gonna sue me for watching the movies??? Geesh...cancel my orders for the Gutenberg AND For Whom the Bell Tolls...hurumph...movie stars....
ReplyDeleteI've read the one you're reading in the picture, but I have read:
ReplyDeleteAll the Names
Blindness
The Stone Raft
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
And how do you like his endless prose with no division of paragraphs and all the embedded dialogues? :)
Happy reading!
Ops...I mean I haven't read the one you're reading in the pic....I've got too excited to see someone else so rapt at reading Saramago! :)
ReplyDeleteYes Matt, Saramago definitely takes some getting used to... actually though I find that one can adapt to his endless structure fairly quickly. I think it's because the author really knows his story.
ReplyDeleteIn the pic I am reading Baltasar & Blimunda (as you know) and I think it was one of the two of his I enjoyed least. The other being The Stone Raft. Don't get me wrong, I liked these books, but I like his others, better, I think.
He is just incredible.
When I was browsing at the boostore, I felt Baltasar & Blimunda is not really up my alley so I never got it. I like the way Saramago kneads his story to get you hooked at the beginning.
ReplyDeleteAll The Names and The Double start off like mystery.Have you read The Double by Dostoevsky?
Have not read The Double by Dostoevsky Matt.
ReplyDeleteThe only stuff by him I have read is The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot.
I prefer Tolstoy to Dostoevsky, when it comes to the Great Russians.
They are both so incredible though.