theMystery.doc | 
Did much better today 🙂
Basically I read the entire day with little naps in-between
Total time so far for #20in4 - 13h02m
I finished Still Life; and as always Val delivered an excellent piece of work.
TheMystery.doc is quite intriguing. It's very disjointed, but I can't seem to put it down.
@Andrew65
pickWhat a thrill this is!
It‘s monumental, intriguing, can get creepy, and is quite, quite sad: as this is really a book about death and dying—exploring that territory—so there is immense gravitas, and McIntosh succeeds in creating something that is, without embellishment, profound.
Here we have over 1,600 pages that feel like 300. I normally have two books going at once, but didn‘t want to share this reading experience with anything else.
The problem is our society. We have no place for the schizophrenic. In the native cultures there were the holy men, the shamans, they were protected and revered, and you‘d bring your little papoose to him for a blessing or a prophecy, and the society would make sure he was fed and clothed because he sure as hell couldn‘t take care of himself. But now we leave them to fend for themselves.
pickStill deciding what I thought of this one... for now, let's call it a pick! It's an interesting journey for sure.
FYI, Littens. This book looks super interesting. It's 1664 pages! Whoa! I've downloaded it.
This MASSIVE chunkster is available for free across most platforms until April 2.
Update: I finished this monster yesterday and... My weak core and bad back are thrilled not to be hauling it around in my bag anymore.
As for the book itself? I was intrigued by some of the narrative threads but don't feel fulfilled at all by most of them. It felt like there were several books happening at once and McIntosh just didn't bother finishing any one of them.
Or I just didn't get it. What do you think?
About a third of the way through this monster, still trying to work out how all the threads come together but I'm a sucker for anything that ventures outside the confines of traditional narrative sructure!
1600 pages. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. 📚
The Library director said few will appreciate this but they will love the quirkiness.
So, I popped into the bookstore after work and this happened...a 1653 page epistolary novel. And it looks kind of wonderful.
