Rainbow stopped; A Suitable Boy begun
May 6, 2002 (8:29 PM) ( link )

I've stopped reading DH Lawrence's The Rainbow on Yu Ping's suggestion--supposedly it's not really a great book, it just has some great descriptive passages. Well, hell, I don't need to sit through a really long book for some pretty words; there are more than enough books out there that are fun to read and well-written. In the hopes that Vikram Seth is an author who can write such books, I've begun reading his A Suitable Boy (finally!). But I'm actually going to stick with it this time. Afterward, perhaps Vonda McIntyre's Dreamsnake, then Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, and then Tim Power's Last Call, which is now at the end of the list because I know I can check it out at home.

No progress in The Mists of Avalon; and yet, no impetus to continue. This is bad for a book.