read and going to read

[David Gentle]

> > Just finished Ouicksilver ...

> There's one I kept taking out of the library and never
> even barely statted.  I think Vineland was taking up
> all my reading time at the time.  And now the second
> novel of the trilogy is out.  In the meantime, I've
> now taken out W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz.  I've never
> even bothered with Infinite Jest ...
>
Stephenson is a programmer and his novels seem to take a while to "boot up". Maybe it helped to read
it on a computer screen rather than off of pages but I doubt it. QS took me three weeks to get
through that way and Cryptonomicon, which off of a dead tree, took me four days. So I guess books
are easier on the eyes.

I'm technically also reading A Suitable Boy but I haven't picked it up for a while.

David Gentle