A pretentious voice leading the masses

Yesterday a divulgance was made at a used book store. $49.50 was spent purchasing a stack of eight books ranging from Kahlil Gibran to Tim O'Brian. One problem with this whole ordeal is that I've become a unflinching numericist: I cannot purchase a book without gauging its font size, page length, whether or not it will be an attribute or detriment to this challenge. It's a habit I'm trying to rid myself of, or at least hinder it enough so that it doesn't get in the way of quality book purchases. But really, do Dover thrift editions really have to be so thrifty? Or Norton's Anthologies try to cram 7,485,209,309 words onto every page?

Let us not be deterred though, fellow 9000-pagites, and begin to the pressing in of pagination. I 'spose we'll count May 1st as the official start date (forgive me all of you whose colleges don't end as soon as UD's) and hopefully the postings are fast and furious. The first discussion's date will be Saturday, May 29th at a currently fiestly debated location (Laura K. and Anna S. are the leading candidates, but perhaps a coffee shop shall trump all) at 5 P.M.

Let us postulate for a while, what that will mean. X amount of people will have been through, perhaps, Steinbeck's greatest work, along with approximately 2300 pages of work. Matt Finn will be halfway through Atlas Shrugged, becoming more and more objectivist. I'll have read the sufist works of Gibran, existentiality of Dostoevsky, and balanced them all against (hopefully) the Pentateuch, while Aaron has learned 234 new ways to catch fish.

That's all folks, this was a study break for me. I'm looking forward to hearing from you shortly.

A General Challenge

Hey everyone. I've returned the world of blogging. It is to issue a general challenge for this coming summer, which I will approximate as mid-May to mid-August: see if you can read one hundred pages a day for 90 days, or 9000 pages. There will be no specifics as to the genre or type of materials; it is just for the purpose to share what literature is relevant and affecting you at the moment. Right now today, I'm going to try to read the Bible (1283 pages), East of Eden, and a plethora of smaller works. I probably won't post anything before graduation (May 8th) but I just wanted to give everyone a heads up. Until then....work on your lists.