Posts tagged 'Demons'

• Day 29: page the end - November 29, 2007

  Well, I finished the book. Actually I finished on Monday since I had a whole lot of spare time sitting around the Cleveland and Philly airports, not getting home. Hooray for me or something.

• Day 10: page 303 - November 10, 2007

  I’ve slowed down quite a bit as lots of other things have come up recently, but I’m still on pace to finish by the end of the month. Even with all the breaks, I’ve averaged about the same speed as with Gravity’s Rainbow. I guess I’m not slacking off as much as it feels like.

• Day 4: page 154 - November 4, 2007

  Does the dialog from this book remind anyone else of the dialog from Final Fantasy? You know: choppy, repetitive, lots of meaningless tangents.

• Day 3: page 80 - November 3, 2007

  I didn’t read yesterday, so today I’m trying to do twice the reading to catch up. I’m writing this before doing the second half of the reading to get my current thoughts out, before anything new happens.

• Now with more buzzwords! - October 31, 2007

  I’ve set up an RSS aggregator for the new Death Pact. For those of you not in the know, an RSS feed is where you get website updates automatically sent to you from time to time. An aggregator takes a ton of those feeds and condenses them into a single one, so you only have to subscribe to one thing. So now you only have to remember the following URL:

  http://www.dethpakt.lumensoutdoors.org

  Enjoy living in the future, with its many many buzzwords.

• Death Pact 2! - October 27, 2007

  Hey what do you know? I fail at blogging, just like I have the several other times I’ve had one of these things on my website.

  Anyway there’s been a recommendation for another reading death pact, this time Dostoevsky’s Demons. I haven’t read anything by this author before though his name and the size of most of his books already intimidates me a little bit. That’s not a serious problem, though. We got through Gravity’s Rainbow so I’m not terribly concerned.

  Anyway, what do other people think? If this is a good choice, we could start it up in November. Are there other books we should suffer through first?

  UPDATE: It’s official, we’re going to do this. Go to the bookstore and get your copy because we start reading on November 1. Luckily I don’t have anything else to do that month, like move or travel.