Mercurial

With all the brouhaha surrounding Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle publication, how could I not pick up a copy of the first volume, Quicksilver? That and it's 910 pages of one of three volumes so as everyone knows or should now know, I just love a protracted, extensive series of long books, regardless of whether I actually read the book or not (case in point, David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest' which looks impressive and massive on my bookshelf but which I have yet to or ever plan to read). I actually did start reading the book last night, making a concerted effort to read slowly and deliberately as to increase my abysmal reading comprehension skills (thus as a sort of fun way to help me start studying for the GMAT's this winter). As of page 12, it's holding my attention. On the down side, I hate having to lug that big a book around with me to read on the subway. I have a dark future of shoulder mal-alignment and insufferable back pain from a bibliophilic life which makes me, I think, some kind of ultimate dork.