Over a month of hard slogging has at last paid off: I finally finished William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience! I don't think it's ever taken me so long to read a book in my life. It's just too long and dense to "run" it at my usual marathon-reading pace. Instead, it has to be done in easy stages. Still, it took a hell of a long time to get through. It was worth it, though. I think I've learned some things (though I can't really tell you what I learned, so maybe it wasn't that great after all).
All of my "hard" "work" has to be worth some blogging material, so, over the next few days, I'm going to devote at least two posts to the book. One will be a fun vocabulary list. James uses lots and lots of cool words. Another (or perhaps several others) will reproduce some choice quotes from the text. That's the plan, anyway.
Now I have to finish Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy, another book that's taking an inordinate amount of time to complete, and move on in my Summer Classics Reading Program. *sigh*
No comments:
Post a Comment