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I guess I am going to start mixing school and pleasure books, sue me. Luc is doing it too!

I finished Naked Lunch by Burroughs a little while ago, it was very interesting to say the least. At first (and throughout most of it) I was really confused as to what was going on. He makes up a lot of words, and uses a ton of words that I do not know because I don't know a lot about drug culture. Reading the book front to back may not even be the best strategy since the entire book is made up of little segments of scenes and he doesn't tell you when the scenes change. You could pick it up at any point in the book and understand it just as much as someone who has been reading it from the beginning. I definitely want to read it again in the future after I read some criticism on it.

I also finished Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis. My mom and I agree that Ellis is the most boring writer ever and he maybe used 5 adjectives throughout the entire book. I have concluded that I am NOT a fan of minimalist writing. It is so empty, I felt no attachment to any of the characters, and I could not engage myself at all. The book is about a rich college freshman home in LA from school for the first time. His friend's parents are all movie stars, and they all lead that glitzy cocaine and drugs filled lifestyle. One could say that Ellis' writing style is purposely empty to portray the emptiness of the rich lifestyle, but I think that is a total cop out. The book just went on and on with a feeling of boringness. It reminded me of The Perks of Being a Wallflower but more grown up with less puberty. That said, I want to read American Psycho in hopes that it is better.

Have also read Descartes' Discourse/Meditations and Hobbes' Leviathan but I don't think anyone wants me to ramble on about Philosophy. I'm also slowly reading the Bible and The Art of Biblical Narrative for one of my classes.

Up next for novels is Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I think this will be the longest book I have read in my life so far at over 1,000 pages. I'm also slowly getting through One Hundred Years of Solitude. I wish I could just read it all the way through but I don't have the time.