Darwin8u’s Comments (group member since May 22, 2013)

Darwin8u’s comments from the Completists' Club group.

And not even DFW gets a pass there.

Pendantic Question: Does the author need to be dead before we can count finishing their work as complete? Philip Roth is an example that comes to mind. He says he is done writing, but until he is wormfood, there is uncertainty. So, if I read all his stuf, and he is still alive ...

IF it was Oprah, I may have blocked it. I Googled it and anything with Dickens and Franzen in it came back with Oprah's sticker tagging along and the interwebs don't lay lye,lie.

I think, if my count is correct, I've read 40 of these. I love the list.

I remember reading an oldish interview with Franzen where someone asked if he had read Dickens, he (Franzen) affirmed he had. The interviewer asked which ones? ... Franzen said simply: ALL.

It was then I decided if a bird-watching, pretty boy like Franzen can read all of Dickens, so can I.

I'm still trying to find the original article, so I might just be making it up.

New to group. I'm looking at: Dickens, Graham GreeneDFW, le Carré, Nabokov, Pynchon. Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth.

I did complete Olen Steinhauer this year, but that isn't like finishing DFW or Roth. I've made significant dents in the others this year, I'm not sure how many I'll finish in 2013, but I want to make progress on all, and at least finish a couple...just not sure which this year.