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david foster wallace "this is water" - I've read a book! a whole book! and it is still january

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over 2 years ago
__ampruteanu

Hey you know what? I shouldn't sell myself short...besides trudging through a Kundera novel iin Romanian, I"m also doing this: http://swine.posterous.com/on-judging-others

So I shouldn't omit that from my yearly total.

__ampruteanu over 2 years ago

__Nheiges

Clearly quitting the blog was an excellent decision! Congratulations on reading a book. And! Maria is a turk! Cool.

__Nheiges over 2 years ago

__ampruteanu

Oh and, I meant to say: love love love DFW's speech. Love.

"There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, "Morning, boys, how's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, "What the hell is water?"

__ampruteanu over 2 years ago

__ampruteanu

Congrats! I am TRRRRRRRRUDGING through Kundera's "Life is Elsewhere" mainly because it's so f-ing rich and textured and quite complex, and most of the weekdays when I come home from work, after having been up since 0500, I don't much feel like it. But when I do finish it damit it will be my 2nd of the year.

__ampruteanu over 2 years ago

tontowilliams

Congratulations on finishing your fisrt book of 2011!

tontowilliams over 2 years ago