Also, I have an admission to make.

I am trying again to get through Dante's Divine Comedy. I got a little distracted and didn't make it through even the Inferno a few years ago, when I first tackled it (in preparation for my first NaNo, oddly enough! Mortal Angel, which I still think has some very good things in it). I figured maybe having an audio book would help things along.

It's not, I put it on when I want to fall asleep at night. >_<;

The trouble is, that for all its wonderful concepts, it's filled with references to the personalities in Italy hundreds of years ago. I'm separated by an ocean and a few hundred years. So I get lost in the constant references. (That, and I have a hunch Longfellow's translation may not be the one I want - I want something truer to the actual language of it than something forcing itself to rhyme.)

But I'm going to keep plugging along, and see if I can pick up anything interesting from it anyway.. really, it's Paradise Lost I want, but the language in that bogged me down with its density the first time around, that's a post-November project.

Meanwhile, I wanted something, uh, lighter, to listen to as well. So I flipped through my stash of C.S. Lewis things (which reminds me! I keep trying to upload the John Cleese reading of Screwtape, to pass along to everyone because it's a wonderful, but the file's too big and yousendit has been screwing me over for months, so I may just have to burn it and send it to people - rest assured I have not forgotten!). And found The Great Divorce. HI Divine Comedy in a form I can relate to wooooooo! I'm flipping out that George MacDonald is the narrator's guide through Heaven, it's the cutest thing in the universe - I'd just read something about what a huge influence MacDonald was on Lewis' own outlook, both in literary and spiritual terms, and the fanboying is adorable. (Also I need to re-read some of George MacDonald's things, I own At the Back of the North Wind and have read a few others, but it's been too long.)

Of course, Tom, meanwhile, is diving into Asimov's robot novels, and I think I'm going to have to follow - he's flipping out about them, and I remember adoring the one I read years ago.

But! not until after November.

Good lord I'll have books to read for the next year, Kellie I still have yours around here that I've read half of, Mom I know you have things for me to read, I have a coworker with like five things lined up for me to read, and then there's the stack of what appear to be fantastically kitschy mystery things that turned up in one of the boxes sent here from home - and! Kellie there are old Horatio Hornblower books in there! Dated 1939. I suppose I shall have to read those, as well. ;)