The New Project
I have started on a new project. I was looking at the The Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels in English and I decided to read them all. I have read some of them, but I think I was too young to ‘get’ some of them at the time. So I’m going to read them all (again). I just finished “Brave New World” (#5 on the list), “The Catcher in the Rye” (#64) and “Animal Farm” (#31). Now I am reading “The Great Gatsby” (#2). I am going to be reviewing them on another part of this pinche site. So I can give you the lowdown on which ones I think are worth reading, if you give any weight to my humble opinion. I am going to try to read them roughly in a sort of descending rank order. However, I am going to save “Ulysses” (#1) for last. This is
for a couple of reasons. I read it already. It took me an entire summer. At moments I thought, Joyce is a genius, then five minutes later, couldn’t remember why I was wasting my time reading it, then, in five minutes, thought he was a genius again. So, since it took me three months to read, a few years ago, I am going to try and have
a little momentum till the end.