Friday, January 19, 2007

Refreshing and Amusing: "75 Books I Failed to Read in 2006"

From thumb drives & oven clocks, the "Howevermany Books Challenge Round-up Extra: 75 Books I Failed to Read in 2006":

"What I read this year" lists: they're great fun, but incomplete portraits of the blogger as a human being. Because for every great book we glide through, for every satisfying book we consume then forget, for every middling book we choke back like cough syrup, there are 37 other books we're thinking about reading, and 4376 other books we could be reading.

Hooray for someone who finally owns up to the fact that even the best of readers doesn't read anywhere near the number of books he'd like to. And an extra hooray for crafting a hilarious post; it will truly make you laugh out loud.

Take, for instance, #22: Underworld by Don DeLillo.
I have this theory that outside of White Noise, nobody actually reads Don DeLillo's books. People just talk about them at dinner parties so they can attract mates, but if you gave them a pop quiz on the contents of the books, they'd all fail miserably.

Or #50: Literary Theory: An Anthology, edited by Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaaaa.


Amen, brother.

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