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books
I am currently reading Portnoy's Complaint, as part of my project of reading writing about sex, but I think I'm very, very close to stopping. The book was loathsomely entertaining for the first fifty pages or so, and I've read a hundred more pages since then, and there's been very little variety, which means mainly that the elements that once seemed entertaining have now grown simply tedious, and the loathsome elements have continued to accumulate. The book goes on for another 150 pages or so, and I don't get any sense that it's going to do anything different or remarkable in this long final stretch. Moral? Rants are wonderful, but they should be short.
Other books destined to soon be sold or given away include Mortimer Adler's How To Read A Book, which was given to me by a representative of the Great Books Foundation. It is currently sitting by the stove, three feet from the back door. It has not yet made it any deeper into my home, and I do not anticipate that it will.
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Friday, June 14, 2002
3:08 PM
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