“Barry,” my cousin Mike said, “I think it’s time.” It was clear that my brother didn’t feel the same way, but he only shrugged, which Mike took as agreement. “Dave,” he said, giving the words as much gravity as he could muster, “Go get the dictionary.” I was nine years old, and a tag-along. I’d walked in on my brother telling a story about how—during school that morning—a girl he knew got her period in the middle of French class. And I laughed like the dickens. And then they called me on it. After I’d lugged the dictionary down from the spare room, Mike told me to look up the word period and read out the definition. “The end of a cycle, a series of events, or a single action?” “Keep going,” he said. “The full pause with which a sentence closes?” “Not that.” “An interval of geologic—“ “Gimme that!” He yanked the book towards him, read down the page, and pointed me towards the definition he’d found. Menstruation: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from pu...
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I have been trying to read Haruki Murakami's "Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" since 2001 and can still never get past page 21.
That was such a dry story...
Seriously though..
Let's think...
Probably something by L. Ron Hubbard.
I think it's the only book I ever started and didn't finish. I read maybe 3 pages, and thought "Why am I reading this? I don't want to read this."
And so I didn't.
Or it means your lazy.
Either one is cool with me, Jay.
I figured what self-respecting scientist hasn't read this book, right? Several people have told me that "it's a surprizingly easy read." They are all surprizingly wrong. In four years I've managed to read 89 of the 666 pages (And I'm not making that up... the seminal book on evolution really is 666 pages long (at least, the copy I have is))...
And yes, I know that I'm answering the Monday question on Friday night... but such is the state of my life right now....