Was my thread on books I cannot read. Specifics.

[Steven Koteff]

Books that are stylistically wild or accomplished but not a)superlative/precise in their wildness and b)morally/spiritually considered/vast/life-affirming. Not a book but Tarantino's movies are close to this for me, for instance. 

It makes it harder to read stuff that is too bombastically for/of the material (Hitchens is difficult but bearable for his other virtues; Dawkins unreadable but then again he's just an asshole; Pinker I still like but he's fundamentally less interesting). Any writing that has too rigid or reductive a thesis/opinion is much harder, really. 

Less interested in heartless headiness. 


> On Jan 19, 2016, at 5:19 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> A Little Life
> Fates and Furies
> Girl on a Train
> Gone Girl
> last two Marylynne Robinson novels. 
> 
> Others I've already forgotten
> 
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