Books
Well, apparently (according to my recently rediscovered LibraryThing profile) I only have 80 books. For a student of literature this is just appalling. I’m sure I have more, but I can’t be bothered to spend an hour going through every book I have in my room right now, checking to see if I’ve already catalogued it, and cataloguing it if it’s not already there.
Anyway, what with Easter coming up very shortly, and the fact that I’ve only got two exams this year (one’s six hours long though!), I decided to do an Amazon shop for a couple of things we (as a house) wanted to get and throw in a book. Underworld, by Don DeLillo – weighing in at a hefty 800+ pages, it should last me a little while at least. In the meantime – I went for free super saver delivery, of course, being a cheap arse student – I’ll get Iris Murdoch’s first novel, Under the Net, out of the way.
Why choose Underworld? I read Falling Man for a seminar this term, and actually quite enjoyed it. It didn’t strike me as at all amazing, but what I’ve heard of his other work he’s not a half bad writer, and rather than start meekly at the shallow end with something like White Noise I thought I should go for the big one. We shall see how it goes.
