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Sword of the Lictor: complete!

"We are all insects ... groping towards something terrible or divine."

Reading this for the second time, hoping to pay more attention to the translations this time thanks to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...

Ellis's prose is pretty intense to begin with, but read by Reg Cathey, this is, uh... wow.

I regret this already.

Rereading, because Dune.

Super difficult to not imagine DQ as that certain kind of nerd whenever he eagerly goes on at length about the stories of famous knights he's read about.

Have to set this aside. The concept of the magic circle in relation to play is interesting, but Huizinga's stuffy prose, archaic worldview, and his (or his translator's) fucking grating habit of using untranslated Greek and French everywhere has just been hard to stomach.

New rule to keep my book diet diverse: read two nonfiction books, then switch to fiction/lit and rinse, repeat.

Holy shit. Suzanne Collins, you need to stop with the constant recaps.

On hold while I enter end-of-semester crunchtime.

Whenever I'm reading a Tao Lin book, my internal voice kind of takes on some of his tone, which is alarming to me.

Not particularly enjoying it so far. The first fifty pages or so are kind of... awkward, saccarine crap. There is a major shift happening at the point where I am, plot- and character-wise, so maybe this won't be as awful as I'm expecting it to be.

Now that I can't afford BART, maybe I'll actually have time to get some reading done on public transit.

I want to add some foreign (e.g., translated into English from another language) books to my reading list. Any suggestions?

"We aren't, except biologically, mother and son, of course."

Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.

"I am a thing called alive."