So I started reading Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, literally the first few pages and I am fascinated. Accessible science writing! Yeah! I actually found the book on the street on top of a trash can. How can people throw such good book away? In fact, any books for that matter. Once I found a ton of old 50s science fiction mystery thrillers on Oak Street, and sold them to Black Oak Books (which is now closed) and got like almost $200 for them. People have no idea of the value of books. They are priceless considering that most newspapers will be obsolete thanks to the internet. Or probably are already obsolete, which explains why many newspapers have forgone the hard copy newspaper and now eveything's on the internet. So one day all books will be on the 'net, which sucks because there's nothing like the smell of a new book. Old books sort of make me sneeze, but I do respect them in their yellowing old age. And some of those babies are worth $$$!
So the reason for the title of this rant is my problem with all the books I currently have on my list to read. How to prioritize indeed...I tried by alphabetical order, but starting with Margaret Atwood is a bit challenging considering it's a collection of short stories from the 80s that I'm simply not interested in reading at this time. Perhaps by theme...? I was just thinking, will I remember any of the books I read? I have excellent recall of books I've read a couple of times, like The Catcher in the Rye and A Tree Growns in Brooklyn, but for books I've read only once, it's almost like I have amnesia and never can remember if I read them or not. I read so much Dostoevsky in college that I can't even remember what happened in each novel (I sort of merge everything together in one huge smorgasbord), but I know for a fact that I never finished Dracula because it was too damn, well, boring. I know some people like it, but I just could not get into it. I am not a true goth...but I did read all of Anne Rice's vampire novels as well as The Witching Hour, which is probably better than all her vampire stuff put together. Can you believe that she went all religious on us?! She wrote those Sleeping Beauty erotica books for chrissakes! Repent, repent! Anyway, I am so excited about books, but it's hard for me to focus on one thing because of current economic insability, plus the friggin' "Wire" has kept me watching it like an addict. Also TV and it's stupid ads about, gee, I don't know what...was watching "The Mentalist", which is okay but it has the exact same formula as most crime shows. It gets old. Seriously. I need to start watching something else, because these are the days of hibernation, hence my re-fascination of books. But I suffer from adult ADD and cannot sit down to read anything to save my life. I seriously think it's because my homelife is so cluttered and the distractions are too much. I need to just go to a cafe and read and turn of my cell phone. Good call! (no pun intended).
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