November 12, 2026
It's almost the end of the 10th as I begin working on this post, I have to use words as millions of snapshots on this thing i'm doing.
There shall not be enforced any particular Sequence, but all of the following have to have at least 30 minutes vocaroo time per day.
Thematic organization
2 major 19th century novels to be finished both on Friday, November 27
1. Les Miserables (1862) -- there's about 61 hours left here so that means there's a need to be listening and average of 4 hours a day, so what I have to do is have at least 2 days per week for the next 3 weeks to be well over 4 hours so the other days of the week can be a little light on the misery.
2. The Idiot (1869) -- my first recording is a re-do as my vocaroo of November 10, 2026 had stopped, thankfully I noticed before the first chapter was over, i'm very enthusiastic about initially experiencing these 2 giants of classic literature, books you just need to have read to be considered "cultured". With eye reading I am continuing War and Peace btw, but not recording that, pronouncing Russian names for me is difficult and will be very evident in my reading of the Joseph Frank biography, which as he says in the Preface that it's not a usual biography that makes much of gossip kinds of stuff, but is seeing the life details only in relation to the work, which is why there's a biography of him in the first place, and this is agreed to in a David Foster Wallace essay which concludes the collection entitled Consider the Lobster.
1 major modernist novel
3. William Gaddis -- The Recognitions -- this too has to be finished on November 27, these 3 shall be like film series bundles, each chapter or sequence of chapters are as just one installment of many more.
If Hugo needs to be 4 hrs per day, Dostoevsky needs to be about an avg of 3, as does Gaddis, so mote it be!! That's 10 hrs, so I have to adjust things a little bit, the speed, the speed has to be a little quicker for them.
NON-FICTION
4. Gibbon's Decline and Fall -- this could be something I play while lying down after a full exhausting day of reading in the living room, in the dark to enter into ancient times seeing how it all fell apart for them. and then going to a couple actual Romans Cicero and Seneca giving sage advice for the ages, before going to Montaigne and Calvin (the Renaissance and The Reformation head to head, toe to toe) before having another showdown between Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche. Kierkegaard, there is no audiobook for him that interests me, just Mark Meadows doing Fear and Trembling, and his voice kinda annoys me these days, I have his recording of Augustine's City of God, and GOD i'm sick of his vocal inflexions!! Tori Amos, I love her, but damn this is an emotional audiobook!! Makes me a little uncomfortable, it feels so intimate, but that is like her songs, songs like Yes Anastasia have the quality of this book, disarmingly genuine and exquisitely earnest in it's message.
5. E.M. Cioran -- after all of the above, for me at least hearing this guy's words is like coming back home from work, and there's a warm feeling I mean from this, you may not think of a pessimist like this, but to me it's like a proverbial 50s sensation, how the first 20 minutes of Blue Velvet is like or like a Douglas Sirk melodrama, postcard quaintness amidst the rubble of human effort, in a comfortable EZ chair with 12 rosy cheeked family members where only 20 other people exist who manage everything in a congenial manner, and this family and all the 20 outside workers have no more children, for they all are Cioranites, anti-natal folks, living out a fond farewell to what human beings used to be and should have been, but oh well, the animal kingdom can take it from here after this "family" bucolically wiles away let's say 17 more years, at which point Mr Smarty Pants will be on his way to the bank let's say to get something done, and right out of the blue a deadly bird flies hari-kari style into my head, splitting apart my whole physiognomy and there in a pool of blood and guts my vocaroo that's going on will never be placed in its appropriate post space.
6. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson - I love this book and want more people to like it, as that would be like finding out people like something good. This does make me want to compare it with a piece of fiction Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, yeah, I will try to get that started tonight, which will be early November 11th, the first vocaroo for the 11th that will inserted in that post before my sleep, and then when I awake the vocaroo for this post right here will begin!!
My plan is coming together, isn't it?? haha
Space for 12th Playlist
©SmartyPantInc
There shall not be enforced any particular Sequence, but all of the following have to have at least 30 minutes vocaroo time per day.
Thematic organization
2 major 19th century novels to be finished both on Friday, November 27
1. Les Miserables (1862) -- there's about 61 hours left here so that means there's a need to be listening and average of 4 hours a day, so what I have to do is have at least 2 days per week for the next 3 weeks to be well over 4 hours so the other days of the week can be a little light on the misery.
2. The Idiot (1869) -- my first recording is a re-do as my vocaroo of November 10, 2026 had stopped, thankfully I noticed before the first chapter was over, i'm very enthusiastic about initially experiencing these 2 giants of classic literature, books you just need to have read to be considered "cultured". With eye reading I am continuing War and Peace btw, but not recording that, pronouncing Russian names for me is difficult and will be very evident in my reading of the Joseph Frank biography, which as he says in the Preface that it's not a usual biography that makes much of gossip kinds of stuff, but is seeing the life details only in relation to the work, which is why there's a biography of him in the first place, and this is agreed to in a David Foster Wallace essay which concludes the collection entitled Consider the Lobster.
1 major modernist novel
3. William Gaddis -- The Recognitions -- this too has to be finished on November 27, these 3 shall be like film series bundles, each chapter or sequence of chapters are as just one installment of many more.
If Hugo needs to be 4 hrs per day, Dostoevsky needs to be about an avg of 3, as does Gaddis, so mote it be!! That's 10 hrs, so I have to adjust things a little bit, the speed, the speed has to be a little quicker for them.
NON-FICTION
4. Gibbon's Decline and Fall -- this could be something I play while lying down after a full exhausting day of reading in the living room, in the dark to enter into ancient times seeing how it all fell apart for them. and then going to a couple actual Romans Cicero and Seneca giving sage advice for the ages, before going to Montaigne and Calvin (the Renaissance and The Reformation head to head, toe to toe) before having another showdown between Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche. Kierkegaard, there is no audiobook for him that interests me, just Mark Meadows doing Fear and Trembling, and his voice kinda annoys me these days, I have his recording of Augustine's City of God, and GOD i'm sick of his vocal inflexions!! Tori Amos, I love her, but damn this is an emotional audiobook!! Makes me a little uncomfortable, it feels so intimate, but that is like her songs, songs like Yes Anastasia have the quality of this book, disarmingly genuine and exquisitely earnest in it's message.
5. E.M. Cioran -- after all of the above, for me at least hearing this guy's words is like coming back home from work, and there's a warm feeling I mean from this, you may not think of a pessimist like this, but to me it's like a proverbial 50s sensation, how the first 20 minutes of Blue Velvet is like or like a Douglas Sirk melodrama, postcard quaintness amidst the rubble of human effort, in a comfortable EZ chair with 12 rosy cheeked family members where only 20 other people exist who manage everything in a congenial manner, and this family and all the 20 outside workers have no more children, for they all are Cioranites, anti-natal folks, living out a fond farewell to what human beings used to be and should have been, but oh well, the animal kingdom can take it from here after this "family" bucolically wiles away let's say 17 more years, at which point Mr Smarty Pants will be on his way to the bank let's say to get something done, and right out of the blue a deadly bird flies hari-kari style into my head, splitting apart my whole physiognomy and there in a pool of blood and guts my vocaroo that's going on will never be placed in its appropriate post space.
6. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson - I love this book and want more people to like it, as that would be like finding out people like something good. This does make me want to compare it with a piece of fiction Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, yeah, I will try to get that started tonight, which will be early November 11th, the first vocaroo for the 11th that will inserted in that post before my sleep, and then when I awake the vocaroo for this post right here will begin!!
My plan is coming together, isn't it?? haha
Space for 12th Playlist
©SmartyPantInc
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