I don't know half of what I should.
When are they going to find a way to inject information intravenously? Why can't I just download someone's brain into mine?
Addendum:
For those of my readers whose brains I would like to download-
Do you ever feel this way? What have you read to fix it? What haven't I read that you think I should? (I haven't read much, so tell me even if it seems obvious.)
Why the questions? I'm trying to make a reading list for myself of stuff I probably should have read already.
Maybe I should just start here:
For example, here's a list of books on these shelves that I haven't read yet:
- To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
- War and Peace - Tolstoy
- My Antonia - Willa Cather
- The Wasteland & Other Poems - Eliot
- Easter 1916 and Other Poems - Yeats
3 comments:
Sara,
Definitly read T.S. Eliot, but also you should check out this site:
http://www.goodreads.com/
When it comes to contemporary poetry I definitly need someone to tell me what to read...so aside from emailing my former professor and borrowing everything I can from my friends, I like to see what other people are reading.
I my God, I always feel that way. What's worse is the feeling--I did read that once and now I have no memory of it . . .
George Bilgere has a poem about this, and I find it such a relief to hear him admit he's never read Moby Dick.
I think "The Waste Land" is the most important of the bunch, but I'm probably biased. Read it, then we'll chat about it. Don't try to "understand" it on the first read. What he's doing is very revolutionary!
PS--Found my L. Hall book sitting under a pile of other books. Sheesh. :)
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