The K.V. Jr. post
I gone and done it again, and now surely will i refrain from ordering till November. Tonight i just had to complete the fiction part of esteemed American author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. with the 944 page Complete Stories collection which will arrive this coming Sunday, TOMORROW as today is Saturday, in due course in about 10 to 15 hours from the time i write the complete novels will arrive at my door.
This could become a long post which shall chart my Kurt experience in detail. Last few nights been enjoying the only book of his i so far have the one that made him popular in 1969 Slaughterhouse Five, in a sweet hardcover edition with the original artwork. Unlike most of the other books i've been reading the pages are a breeze, lots of space in between the lines, i can read 4 pages in the same time as one page from the others. So it goes.
The short stories will be more tricky to read chronologically, the volume arranges it all thematically. I would perhaps be advised to see what the short story collections contained and all, but that just seems like too much toil, and i like the physical sensation of going through a book, how at the beginning it's thin to the left, thick to the right, and slowly changes. Simple pleasures like that.
The pleasure of the text, a Roland Barthes phrase is the thing Kurt represents to me, the joys of reading, being under the care and guidance of a skilled author, like the experience of watching a film by a great director, is like an ideal form of spending time for me whereas for others it is more active and other people oriented. Good to know where you stand, for me it's the touch of the divine to be alone with a master, and here is one other point i want to make, that of attaining all of their work and appreciate them in a totality is of course exhilarating. However when it comes to Kurt i will be missing his non fiction, and Letters. I viewed some responses on a biography there is about him, and i think he maybe deserved better.
What shall be added below is a list of all the novels and short stories and whatever else contained in the 5 volumes on their way, with maybe some scant remarks about them, or generalized remarks they put me in the mood for. With the internet i can also supplement it all with stuff, like there is an excellent looking documentary on him, and interviews. For me Kurt is like a modern writer, most of the other stuff i read i consider classics, but Kurt is almost like Stephen King in his modernity. Heck he has only been missing from the land of the living since 2007. Sure there's a few others like him, but then again each writer is unique, so i shouldn't have said that. Blunders shown, shall less blunders evoke. So it goes.
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oh yes the non fiction, some of that to be gotten in November.
This could become a long post which shall chart my Kurt experience in detail. Last few nights been enjoying the only book of his i so far have the one that made him popular in 1969 Slaughterhouse Five, in a sweet hardcover edition with the original artwork. Unlike most of the other books i've been reading the pages are a breeze, lots of space in between the lines, i can read 4 pages in the same time as one page from the others. So it goes.
The short stories will be more tricky to read chronologically, the volume arranges it all thematically. I would perhaps be advised to see what the short story collections contained and all, but that just seems like too much toil, and i like the physical sensation of going through a book, how at the beginning it's thin to the left, thick to the right, and slowly changes. Simple pleasures like that.
The pleasure of the text, a Roland Barthes phrase is the thing Kurt represents to me, the joys of reading, being under the care and guidance of a skilled author, like the experience of watching a film by a great director, is like an ideal form of spending time for me whereas for others it is more active and other people oriented. Good to know where you stand, for me it's the touch of the divine to be alone with a master, and here is one other point i want to make, that of attaining all of their work and appreciate them in a totality is of course exhilarating. However when it comes to Kurt i will be missing his non fiction, and Letters. I viewed some responses on a biography there is about him, and i think he maybe deserved better.
What shall be added below is a list of all the novels and short stories and whatever else contained in the 5 volumes on their way, with maybe some scant remarks about them, or generalized remarks they put me in the mood for. With the internet i can also supplement it all with stuff, like there is an excellent looking documentary on him, and interviews. For me Kurt is like a modern writer, most of the other stuff i read i consider classics, but Kurt is almost like Stephen King in his modernity. Heck he has only been missing from the land of the living since 2007. Sure there's a few others like him, but then again each writer is unique, so i shouldn't have said that. Blunders shown, shall less blunders evoke. So it goes.
🤘
oh yes the non fiction, some of that to be gotten in November.
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