{"id":509,"date":"2007-03-20T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/03\/20\/the-against-the-day-deathmarch-week-8\/"},"modified":"2007-03-20T23:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T23:44:00","slug":"the-against-the-day-deathmarch-week-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/03\/20\/the-against-the-day-deathmarch-week-8\/","title":{"rendered":"The Against the Day Deathmarch, Week 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost 2 months in (!) and on the one hand, bodies are droppin’. On the other hand, we have something like 17 or 18 folks still with us, which is certainly a record for this deep into the journey.
\nI think RaptorMage is right when he says its the nature of these DMs to feel impossible. We’re looking for books that aren’t page turners and then we’re reading those books slow. It’s a challenge for sure. The one book in the series that really flipped itself for me was Pale Fire<\/i>, and that one almost felt like we were cheating.
\nI remember in Book I of Don Quixote<\/i> feeling like it was just going on and on and slipping away from me. But Book II picked up and good Lord the ending of DQ<\/i> was beautiful and worth the trip.
\nWith Gravity’s Rainbow<\/i>, there were points when I was downright angry with Pynchon. And the last 20 pages still sounds like dogs barking to my brain. But there are so many parts of that GR<\/i> that I’m glad I experienced. With AtD<\/i>, I’m still enjoying the individidual segments. I’m still not pulled to pick the book up from the shelf. I’m still, unfortunately, about 40 pages behind. (Ack!) But I’m still hanging in there, watching as old pals (Merle, Dally, Kit, Vibe) come back into play, as a few characters start to become borderline real. Maybe at the end it’ll add up to less than the sum of its parts. Maybe it’ll rise to some shockingly coherent crescendo. I’m game to find out.
\nDoubt ye not the Week-8-summarizing skills of so-called “Steve Evans,” whose madelienes await ye here<\/b><\/a>.
\nTuesday 3\/27:<\/b> Let’s hop, and\/or skip, and\/or jump on over to page 428, where someone with a silly name is leaving “the Mysteries of Time” to others.
\n(in other words: please use this thread to comment on anything up to page 428. Try to finish reading that part of the book and to comment on it here by end o’ day next Monday)<\/i>
\n(I miss) Pugnax!
\n-Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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