his little book of early short stories too?

So over the past week I reread As I Lay Dying and The Great Gatsby.

As far as solitary activities go, I don't think anything can beat rereading great literature with a laptop close at hand for easy access to a dictionary and Google Images.

So over the past week I reread As I Lay Dying and The Great Gatsby.

As far as solitary activities go, I don't think anything can beat rereading great literature with a laptop close at hand for easy access to a dictionary and Google Images.

It's a little odd that perhaps the greatest English writer of prose came from the Russian aristocracy.

The first part of Ada is really something, pnoom. Enjoy it while it lasts because I found there to be a bit of a drop in quality once the story moves into the more splintered second half. That said, I don't remember much of the plot beyond that point, so maybe my memory of the quality of writing is wrong.

Finished Vineland finally. It lacks the scope of Gravity's Rainbow or Mason & Dixon, which is probably why it'll never be considered one of his major works, but it's pretty much on the same level. It's his most personal novel and his most incisive. Very sad and nostalgic - and angry at the current state of America (in the 80s).