To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
After finishing “The Master and Margarita”, I started reading earlier this week “The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro. I wanted to start with Ishiguro a few months ago and I was kind of undecided between this and “Never Let Me Go”, which I nominated for the next bookclub.
I'm currently on page 70 and so far I'm enjoying it. The main character is an old Butler who's kind of of a sperg. His new american boss gives him a few days off and he goes on a roadtrip through the English countryside to visit the old Housekeeper who left the Manor 20 years before while revisiting his memories from the time she worked there.
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I finished Fragile Things, a Neil Gaiman short story collection. Despite recently loving Stardust and The Ocean at the End of the Lane, I think I'm a bit Gaiman'd out after this one. Most of his short stories just seem to be an interesting idea or image sketched for the reader, but there's rarely a sense of an actual story or a point. I think this kind of thing works in small doses, but when you go through a couple dozen in a row it starts to tire you out. I prefer his longer fiction, where there's time to develop characters, worlds, and ideas.
Also, shout-out to The Problem of Susan for being the most butthurt piece of short fiction I've ever encountered. In theory I can appreciate using Narnia to explore feelings of anger at God, but the actual result comes across as whiny, and the s*x stuff feels like something a teenage /r/atheist would have written in 2010. But maybe the point was just to annoy Christoids, in which case it worked.
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