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I’m a nerdy little bookworm. Sometimes. Ok, it’s more often than not. You see, I ride the train a lot, and sometimes iPod earbuds make my ears hurt. So, naturally, I nuzzle into the stained seat like a puppy, pull out a book, and start reading. I’ve slowed down my pace, but, at one point, I was reading at least two 200 page books a week. Let’s just say, the librarians got to know me pretty well. So, a question I get asked quite often, and which really annoys me, is: what’s your favorite book? I tell them I don’t have a favorite book. Then, these questioners like to ask me what I think the best book of all time is. Well, I’m here now to give you my answer. There are two of them: Ulysses by James Joyce and Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Forget the Da Vinci Code and all the other trash fiction out there. Each of this books has so much substance that you literally have to look at every word, even “the” to get just the idea behind a phrase, not even the sentence. These two books are so heavy and rich that I’ve read each 3 times and still feel I don’t have a full understanding of either. I’ve wanted to shoot myself at least once every time I read them, but that’s kind of their charm.

-dan

Add comment April 25th, 2007