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Our mate Kyla once wisely said that there were books you wanted to read and books you wanted to have read. I puzzled over this for a long time, but fighting to get through Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow and then having trouble putting down George Orwell's A Clergyman's Daughter brought the meaning home to me.

I had some mad idea of reading Huxley's entire oeuvre; Crome Yellow constantly interrupts itself with long asides which drove me berko, so I think I'll be giving the rest of his output a miss at least for now, although I do mean to do my once-each-decade re-read of Brave New World this year. By contrast, I think I could cheerfully read Orwell's collected shopping lists. I powered through Clergyman's Daughter despite the excruciating injustice of the characters and situations. Also due is my once-each-decade re-read of 1984, which I first attempted at age 9, and put aside because there was mention of a naked lady.

Date: 2007-01-21 10:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com
You know that Rebecca West quote, "I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat." ? Dorothy's the doormat, and how.

Date: 2007-01-21 10:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] murasaki-1966.livejournal.com
Good quote. May I use it?

Date: 2007-01-21 10:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com
Yes, of course!

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