EXXtreme reading II: this time it's personal
EXXtreme reading II: this time it's personal
I'm not certain if I'm unusual in this respect, but I expect my reading experiences to be more thought-provoking and cerebral than, say, movies I watch, comics I read, or games I play. There isn't a single book on my shelf that I'd consider beneath me. I'm not in the habit of purchasing anything that was a New York Times Bestseller.
For example, I'd heard about The Da Vinci Code from several people and decided to just download the audiobook rather than get the book from the library. Out of five CD's, I've managed to make it through one and a half. I started it a week ago, but I quickly realized that it was a book for normies. I could easily predict every plot twist before it happened, and this was clearly a book that favored plot over character. I keep saying that I can knock out two CD's just walking around town doing errands in a day, but listening to Brown's prose is like voluntarily kicking myself in the nuts. Unfortunately I've got the gumption to finish what I started, so I'll just end up being metaphorically sterile I guess.
I complain about popular literature, but I also own movies like Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Phantom of the Paradise. Perhaps it's the investment of time involved with a novel as opposed to a film. I should fucking better still be thinking about a novel I read a week down the road; I spent two weeks reading it.
Of course I write this as I watch Eyes Wide Shut for probably the sixth or seventh time over the course of the last four years, still trying to wrap my head around the ideas expressed in the film. Then again, I've got Man on Fire to watch next in my queue. Hmmm...
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Watching Eyes Wide Shut is one thing. Reading the text on which it was based, in German, is another. Stay away from that action.
No worries there. Until I learn the German langauge, that action'll perpetually be in extreme long shot.
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