Parents' Day/St. James Day/Act Like A Caveman Day/Carousel Day
2004-07-25 @ 11:13 p.m.

Recording Mel's Lighthouse Family CD now, while trying to produce at least part of an article. A unusual amount of time during the past few days has been spent in a sort of reading frenzy. Verdict: The Judas Virus was a mistake, but The Lifted Veil & Brother Jacob wasn't. The former isn't half as graphic in its description as I had hoped for. I'd expected something gruesome, you know, like people melting from the inside out à la haemorrhagic fevers. Instead, I get a paltry few pages, with one woman's death not even described. Just a passing line that tells me she collapsed outside her apartment. The subject matter is interesting, but the graphic details are sorely lacking in a novel with such an arresting title. I hope Kinokuniya has a return policy, because if they do, I'm sending this one back. Eliot, on the other hand, is brilliant as usual. Haven't read Brother Jacob yet, but The Lifted Veil was mind-boggling. Silas Marner actually seems comprehensible now. I still feel Eliot could have handled the denouement of the story a bit better. It was too sudden, but it would have been shocking for a 19th century audience. Now I feel like buying that complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe's works that I saw in Borders. The Fall Of The House Of Usher. One day, I want to write a poem about that story.

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