i started reading the stand the other day by Stephen King. it is about a million pages long and may take me till 2020 to finish. i am determined to read it even though i find big books big which can induce laziness which leads to abandonment and that could then lead to guilt.
basically david told me that my new favourite can’t miss, want to know everything there is to know about show LOST is loosely based, pays homage to, has similar themes, characters and what have you to the stand. being the kick ass friend he is he dropped it off for me on the same day the conversation came up. reading borrowed books is hard for me. i am a book snob. i HAVE to own my books. i know it sounds stupid but i just have to. so if i borrow one and i like it, i then have to buy it or put it on the list for other jerks to buy me and/or buy it used if i find one on the list and it passes my inspection.
until recently one thing i have never been into is reading more than one book at a time. but while reading shake hands with the devil i branched out and read a couple of books at the same time. shake hands with the devil was heavy, not just because it chronicles the failure of the world to come to the aid of the Rwandans while they hacked each other to death, which evoked feelings of anger, disgust and helplessness while reading but because it is written with military and political lingo and i am no expert on politics in general and especially Rwandan politics. i learned a fuck load reading that book. i can’t stop talking about it. i have read a lot of books on war, the holocaust, terrorism, the UN but nothing as touching as Dallaire�s novel. maybe it�s because he isn’t a writer and parts are painfully repetitive but this man although still living gave himself to that country and you can just feel him all the way through the book. we rented the documentary of the same name that was filmed during Romeo Dallaire’s return to Rwanda for the ten year anniversary of the genocide. it was awe inspiring.
(recently Canada had this greatest Canadian contest thing and i just can not for the life of me figure out how this guy did not win, granted i don’t even know if he was nominated, but regardless i call for a re-vote)
adam said thank you to me for renting it saying he would never have seen it otherwise. which was awesome because i felt like i got to share the book with him, so he understood why while i was reading i would get mad, scoff constantly and eventually put the book down and did not touch it again until i had read another book and then returned to it.
the only other Stephen King book i have read is Carrie. i really loved it but for some reason i have just never been a horror/scary novel reader. ture crime and non fiction induced fear are more my game. it is definitely a branch out of sorts but LOST it just such a fucking kick ass show i have to read it. normally i watch tv for the escape, for the mindlessness of it i sure as hell don�t take it seriously. LOST is different it is deep but still totally far fetched and WAY out there, not in a 24 – Jack Bauer kind of way though.
anyway this book better be good. i don’t know why but i have always wanted to be one of those readers who can read more than one at a time, so with this book being just short of a million pages maybe i will try reading a couple at a time again.
