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Reading Wednesday
Apr. 8th, 2020 02:05 pmRecently read
Continued my re-read of the Hitchhiker's Guide series with The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I had completely forgotten how it ended - ( spoilers, obvs ) - and how good of an ending it was. It's funny and unsettling and poignant all at once.
I also read Outline by Rachel Cusk, and I feel... extremely ambivalent about it. I didn't dislike it, exactly, but I found it unsatisfying. Cusk's writing is delicate and precise, but I kept feeling my attention slide off of her words like a too-slick surface. The plot, such as it is, follows a recently divorced author from London who travels to Athens to teach a writing class; the novel mostly consists of her encounters with various people who tell her their life stories in surprisingly intimate detail for a stranger she just met on a plane, or a friend of a friend who tagged along on their dinner plans.
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Back to Douglas Adams with Life, the Universe, and Everything. So far not my favorite book in the series, solely because of all the jokes about cricket, a sport I do not understand and rather suspect to be an elaborate practical joke, played by the English on the rest of humanity, that got way out of hand. However, it does get points for Trillian being so sick of dealing with Zaphod's b.s. she just teleports out of there to destination: Anywhere But Here. Good for her!
Continued my re-read of the Hitchhiker's Guide series with The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I had completely forgotten how it ended - ( spoilers, obvs ) - and how good of an ending it was. It's funny and unsettling and poignant all at once.
I also read Outline by Rachel Cusk, and I feel... extremely ambivalent about it. I didn't dislike it, exactly, but I found it unsatisfying. Cusk's writing is delicate and precise, but I kept feeling my attention slide off of her words like a too-slick surface. The plot, such as it is, follows a recently divorced author from London who travels to Athens to teach a writing class; the novel mostly consists of her encounters with various people who tell her their life stories in surprisingly intimate detail for a stranger she just met on a plane, or a friend of a friend who tagged along on their dinner plans.
Currently reading
Back to Douglas Adams with Life, the Universe, and Everything. So far not my favorite book in the series, solely because of all the jokes about cricket, a sport I do not understand and rather suspect to be an elaborate practical joke, played by the English on the rest of humanity, that got way out of hand. However, it does get points for Trillian being so sick of dealing with Zaphod's b.s. she just teleports out of there to destination: Anywhere But Here. Good for her!
