“Highly recommend, although I can understand how some might find it boring.”
This made me giggle. It’s how I feel about most of the niche books I recommend but also maybe what others say about my work! I find recommendations tricky—I wonder how many people actually follow up and read the book, watch the movie etc? Sometimes I feel like I’m just showing off what a well-read person I am😬
Yeah, my reading/watching and listening is so eclectic, there’s very little that I’d recommend for everyone. One of my favorite haunts on the Criterion Channel, for example, is Tarkovsky’s “Stalker.” I just thought it was interesting that, given my capacity for distraction, I was able to sit there utterly absorbed by something sooooo sloooooooow. Refreshing, in a way!
Such a weird coincidence. I was just talking to my partner about Blake last night. I did my high school senior thesis on Blake. He was one of my obsessions back then; he, Tennessee Williams and T.S. Eliot.
“Highly recommend, although I can understand how some might find it boring.”
This made me giggle. It’s how I feel about most of the niche books I recommend but also maybe what others say about my work! I find recommendations tricky—I wonder how many people actually follow up and read the book, watch the movie etc? Sometimes I feel like I’m just showing off what a well-read person I am😬
Yeah, my reading/watching and listening is so eclectic, there’s very little that I’d recommend for everyone. One of my favorite haunts on the Criterion Channel, for example, is Tarkovsky’s “Stalker.” I just thought it was interesting that, given my capacity for distraction, I was able to sit there utterly absorbed by something sooooo sloooooooow. Refreshing, in a way!
Such a weird coincidence. I was just talking to my partner about Blake last night. I did my high school senior thesis on Blake. He was one of my obsessions back then; he, Tennessee Williams and T.S. Eliot.
All worthy obsessions, I became obsessed with Williams when I played “him” a few years ago (his alter-ego) in The Glass Menagerie.