I don’t know what to call it. John Muir is awesome. So poetic, interested in all the things I’m interested in, inspires me to get out there and go hiking (as if I needed more motivation?) — yet, his work is… I don’t know what to call it… “heavy”… the opposite of light reading. I’m just slogging through it. I don’t know if I really like it, but it’s definitely beautifully quotable. It’s leaving me with so many mixed feelings.
by SpringtimeMoonlight
4 Comments
I read Travels in Alaska by John Muir and I agree its beautiful but dense. Took me quite a while to get through it. I tend to find older books from the early 1900s or older harder to read and I think a lot of that is just the difference in the style of writing back then.
I love reading history books and find a lot of them can be very dense and difficult reads but thats more for the density of the facts and figures in a lot of those.
yukio mishima. his prose style was hard, at least for me
It took me over a year to read Don DeLillo’s Underworld.
The writing was spectacular! But there was just no plot that I could grab onto, so I felt like I was reading really dense poetry, trying desperately to figure out meaning.
It was The Wasteland on steroids….
Pynchon