La idea es interesante. El libro te muestra todo lo que escribe el protagonista, su lista de compra, anuncios, cartas (muy esmeradas y en las que se enrolla como una persiana)... de manera que te vas haciendo una idea de su modo de ser, vas viendo retazos de lo que le va pasando y, principalment...
I tried with this book. I really, really tried. I made it until about halfway before I finally had to give up though. I'd had enough of Andy Whitaker's letters to assorted people where really nothing happens.You see, that is the whole premise of this book, it is everything that the narrator, Andr...
"I had always imagined that my life story...would have a great first line: something like Nabokov's 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins;' or if I could not do lyric, then something sweeping like Tolstoy's 'All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.'....
Fontini, This is for the record. The sheetrocker has submitted his bill for replacing the ceiling in the kitchen. This was, as you are surely aware, a rather large piece of ceiling, more ceiling, in fact, than many people are unfortunate enough to have in their living rooms. Furthermore, this is ...
Writing a few pages and giving up. Between one stopping and another starting there was always an interlude, filled in its first part by regret at having stopped and in its second part by excitement at starting again, finally, and I tried to write about that too once, or maybe twice, I don’t remem...
I think too much Clarence liked to say, when I objected to some of the piffle he would come out with, especially when he had knocked back a few. I am not going to go into that now, into his drinking or his piffle, as I am not at the moment thinking about Clarence, except insofar as I have to in o...
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