I’m sick of lists of books. Reading lists, top tens, flowcharts, curriculums, canons, counter-canons, the lot. Pathetic activity. Someone could write out the name of every single book I really love, ranked impeccably, with no omissions and no interpolations, and I’d spit cold venom in their face. I think the only way to read with dignity is to read organically, genealogically, backwards, by touch. Not running down a list, but excavating, following the seams where words bleed into each other.
This is why I refuse to be constrained by the books themselves, I just go from word to word across different pages and books, and make my own story.
>>25201020don't engage with that shit then. I keep a storygraph "to read" list just so when I'm at the used book store I can easily remember what seemed interesting. I don't trust anybody making book content online>>25201022has anyone made a book where line 1 goes across all pages and you have to flip through the whole book for each line?
finally a good thread
>>25201024>book where line 1 goes across all pages and you have to flip through the whole book for each line?Many children's picture books
>>25201067really? then you go back to page 1 for line 2 and have to keep doing it? never seen that, I think
>>25201020I absolutely agree, except when I'm looking for new books I've never heard of in a very specific niche. There are just too many books.
>>25201020Quote by an essayist btw
>>25201020Sam is a hack with pseud taste
>>25201283>Sam is a hackCorrect>pseud tasteWrong
>>25201020lmao
