26 hours after starting the book, I just finished it. I did not read without stopping: I slept, made several meals, and took Sara for a walk. I played cards with Miles, read the newspaper, and changed at least one diaper that I can remember. Andrea even got to read a bit, too.
As Ron said in The Half-Blood Prince: "None of us could've guessed ..."
Here are my two favorite bits:
"There it was again: choose what to believe. He wanted the truth."
"'Of course it is happening inside your head [...], but why on earth should that mean it is not real?'"
I don't think those two lines give anything away. :-)
And just when I thought you were going to dedicate yourself to reading Coetzee!
ReplyDeleteAbout the latter: so far you've only talked about ones I've read too (though "Foe" was awhile ago and I read it very fast and have almost complete amnesia about it). I'm wondering if you're considering doing some kind of critical study of Coetzee's novels...
Bruce read it without stopping -- took him 7 hours -- but he knew he'd have to do that. He reads faster than I do, so he got first dibs. He finished it at around 7pm on Saturday. I suggested we go out for ice cream. Then I started it when we got back. I read it in about 11 hours total, over two days. I liked that second line you chose, too. There were other good bits as well. Now I feel like a kid who has just finished opening all their Christmas presents....
ReplyDeleteDon, I had fun re-reading HP in anticipation of the new book, and I have done the same with Ishiguro (although I only re-read some of his books when a new one is announced), so I thought I'd do the same with Coetzee before "Diary of a Bad Year" comes out in Britain in September. Right now I'm reading "The Master of Petersburg," which I have not read before.
ReplyDeleteKaty, that's a good image, the Christmas presents. But all I'm really feeling is the need to know who else is done so as to chatter about a few developments in the final book.