Two
caveats, to start with. The first is that I got a letter today (a real
live letter) from Google suggesting, among other things, that if I were
to focus my blog on one subject--or even two--I might receive more
hits. I thought this was interesting, and a good suggestion, and I
resolved to focus more on retro-futurism, Buckminster Fuller, and
century-old illustrations of hypothetical astronauts.
However (caveat two) I was walking back from the coffee shop after finishing my German homework and got to thinking about the two BIG books I read last year, "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon, and "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
However (caveat two) I was walking back from the coffee shop after finishing my German homework and got to thinking about the two BIG books I read last year, "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon, and "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
On the surface these books have nothing in common except that they are both long and difficult; the Pynchon is more difficult than the Dostoevsky, I would say, but they are both supremely rewarding masterworks of modern literature.
