Ulysses for Dummies
Having read Ulysses for Dummies [ via "Karen":http://www.erzsebel.com/rise/risearchives/002927.html ], I now feel confident I can read the real thing.
This will only leave the Gormenghast Trilogy in The Pile that is a massive “I’m so big you dare not start reading me unless you have a spare month” type of book. All the rest are mere 400 pages or less.
Except for all the huge non-fiction books like “The Blue Planet” and all three “History of Britains”. And that biography of Samuel Pepys I was bought for my birthday (the name of which escapes me right this second).
June 20th, 2003 at 13:59
Okay, this is really important. Read Gormenghast but to not not *not* under any circumstances read the third book. At all. Ever. Don’t.
Not for at least three weeks after you’ve read the other two do you even *start* the third book. Really.
June 20th, 2003 at 14:14
Gosh, I was going to say exactly what Aquarion said. The first two Gormenghast books are great, and the third is a huge disappointment. Don’t ever read it; there’s simply no need. Definitely don’t read it straight after the other two; maybe it would be okay on its own, but I doubt it.
June 20th, 2003 at 14:14
Ah, okay. Maybe I should tear the third book from the Trilogy. Then it would be a less daunting size.
I can understand the not not *not* bit on the basis that it could be totally crap or something. But why wait three weeks?