When my boyfriend buys a new computer game he buys me books to keep me occupied so I don't really take notice of quite how much time he spends with the xbox. He also waits until I'm asleep, puts headphones on and plays xbox til 4 or 5 in the morning for some serious uninterrupted gaming time.
As long as I get free books, I don't care.
This was the most recent bribes/distractions, I finished it today in fact.
I honestly can't remember the last time I reached the words 'The End' with such warmth, satisfaction and approval as this. Instead of rambling on myself about the clever (lack of) structure and hilariously funny repetitious dialogue, I'm just going to quote a few things said by Howard Jacobson.
"Its looseness, its unruliness, its extravagance, its verbal excess, its emotional waywardness, its impatience with the niceties. whether of expression or of feeling, its repetitiveness, its devil-may-care clumsiness, its hysteria, its tomfoolery, its brutality, its sexual rough-and-tumble, its unembarrassed preachiness, its validations, its formlessness, or rather- because Heller knows full well what laws he's breaking- its apparent formlessness. If those are faults, we say, then hang the virtues."
"It takes formidable technical skill to create this sense of humanity lurking in humanity, and to power a narrative by it, but it is a humane achievement too, a making active, to the point where one can no longer bear it, of the dictum that no man is an island, a demonstration that we do not always know where we end and another man begins."
Well said Jacobson, I would have said a similar thing....
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