Akaky Akakyovich (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} admiralbunny) wrote,@ 2005-05-09 16:15:00 |
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For the love of sanity, people, please: do not read "The Hamilton Case". I started this book a month ago, and the only reason it would take me this long to read a book is because it is terrible, but I have the unfortunate aspect of my personality that impels me to finish any book that I begin. Unless it is completely hopeless. This book is obtuse, overdescriptive, nonsensical, full of characters that have little to no bearing on the plot, and is about 150 pages too long. I fully realize that this criticism is lame and too facile, but have had it about most of the new novels I've read over the past two years. Don't these people have editors? Don't these editors have the power to cut out the bullshit that an author can't bring herself to cut? If these novels (among them "The Effects of Light," "Amateur Marriage," "The Companions," to name a few) already went through a serious editting process, they must have been one and a half million pages to begin with.
Anyway. I had a pretty good weekend. On Friday night Eric and I went to see the Dali show at the Philly Art Museum, which was really totally awesome even though I'm not all that jazzed upa bout Dali. There were seven hundred thousand paintings and about three times as many people milling about before them; but we decided to take it slow, so the crowd wasn't too annoying. Actually at points it was almost surreal, the amount of people drifting quietly before these incredible, shocking, hugely metaphorical paintings. It was very nice. Then we walked home and ate mac and cheese and veggie buffalo wings, which were surprisingly good to eat, and fell asleep in front of the tv like some old married couple. On Saturday we got up and walked over to the post office in the shady neighborhood that starts three blocks away from our house, then walked around the flea market that was on the block next to ours. Since Eric never lets me buy junk, I invited my friend Melissa to walk it with me for a second time without him, and I got a ring, a pin, and a pair of yoga pants and a shirt for less than $5. There was some cool stuff there but a lot of crap as well. I ran into a couple of other friends there and they came up to see our "new" apartment (new to them, that is) and then I cleaned and ironed after they left until E. came home from seeing his folks. Yesterday we rearranged the living room and it was so nice outside that we decided to go drink a couple of beers and eat a burger at London Grill. It was beautiful out and fun to watch all the fancily dressed Mother's Day families walking about after their brunches. Then we got naked and then we took a nap, so that I couldn't sleep last night and was up until 3 am watching shitty movies on TV.
So that was the weekend. It was nice and relaxing, and I will need the next two to get totally rested for when my mom visits in the end of the month.
Anyway. I had a pretty good weekend. On Friday night Eric and I went to see the Dali show at the Philly Art Museum, which was really totally awesome even though I'm not all that jazzed upa bout Dali. There were seven hundred thousand paintings and about three times as many people milling about before them; but we decided to take it slow, so the crowd wasn't too annoying. Actually at points it was almost surreal, the amount of people drifting quietly before these incredible, shocking, hugely metaphorical paintings. It was very nice. Then we walked home and ate mac and cheese and veggie buffalo wings, which were surprisingly good to eat, and fell asleep in front of the tv like some old married couple. On Saturday we got up and walked over to the post office in the shady neighborhood that starts three blocks away from our house, then walked around the flea market that was on the block next to ours. Since Eric never lets me buy junk, I invited my friend Melissa to walk it with me for a second time without him, and I got a ring, a pin, and a pair of yoga pants and a shirt for less than $5. There was some cool stuff there but a lot of crap as well. I ran into a couple of other friends there and they came up to see our "new" apartment (new to them, that is) and then I cleaned and ironed after they left until E. came home from seeing his folks. Yesterday we rearranged the living room and it was so nice outside that we decided to go drink a couple of beers and eat a burger at London Grill. It was beautiful out and fun to watch all the fancily dressed Mother's Day families walking about after their brunches. Then we got naked and then we took a nap, so that I couldn't sleep last night and was up until 3 am watching shitty movies on TV.
So that was the weekend. It was nice and relaxing, and I will need the next two to get totally rested for when my mom visits in the end of the month.
