Blog 10/21/01
October 20, 2001 (12:00 AM) ( link )

I'm progressing through A Prayer for Owen Meany. It's really, really slow—John Irving takes his time describing things in a very nonlinear fashion. But it is fitfully amusing, and Irving writes well (even though, at times, his style is a bit too contrived). It hasn't drawn me in yet, but I'm not very far into it. Plus, it's easy reading so far, so I think I'll stick with it to the bitter end. On other fronts: Newspro is really an amazing, amazing program. It has this thing called a glossary function, where it will scan through the text that you post and replace phrases that you define with other text. So, for instance, I have it search through this text and replace any instance of a book's title with a link to the appropriate page. Amazing.