At least it's nonfiction
I was planning on diving in to the Charles Schulz biography and I did start it but it seems so heavy after Falling Man which I read back-to-back with On Chesil Beach, which itself was definitely not a day at the beach, though thought-provoking and an absolute page-turner.
"Schultz," after reading a review or two and the introduction is what I thought--an attempt to "get to know" the creator of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy and the Peanuts gang. But by all accounts Schultz was at minimum a solitary man and worst case, a full on depressive. I could and have dealt with books that are not high-spirited but "Schultz" is coming on the heels of Falling Man, a book which I have mixed feelings about but none of them are joyful. It's story sprang from the events of September 11, 2001 and it focused mostly on a guy who'd been in the one of the towers but like thousands, walked away from the disaster. Then he walked away from his life.
Falling Man's narrative does this jumpy thing and it may be my short span of attention or just my like of a certain smoothness to novels but the ping-ponging narrative took me out of the story. We heard the terrorists point of view, lots about how they prayed and trained and prayed and trained some more. But then we were in the survivor's world of adjusting to the days and weeks after 9/11 and then a time jump and several years beyond it.That felt a little weird, too.
Anyway, I'm going to be completely shallow and instead read The Diana Chronicles because I read about author Tina Brown and her interesting-sounding career on both sides of the Atlantic and figured she'd get lots background of the events of Diana's car crash and death on Aug 31,1997 (my brother's wedding day--odd).
Hey, at least it's non-fiction.
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i have no problem with shallow reading. i'm currently reading graphic novels.
I essentially learned to read with graphic novels of a sort--comic books. It was my dad's way of having something in common so we'd pick the new DC and Marvel comics with all the superheroes, and takes turns reading them. Fun times. I like stories with pictures. And I'm big into fantasy.
I go through spurts where I don't read traditonal books. I didn't even know who DeLillio was though I'd heard of but not read Libra. I guess I know what not to read. <snort>
He says no--but I need to read the book to see what the official conclusion is. What do you think?
I think all his characters were pieces of him, some bigger than others.