A MILESTONE IS REACHED! (Celebrity Guest Letter, #362)– presented and edited by Steve Nadis
This note just arrived from a friend in Paris:
Dear Steve — It may not be much, but here is the news: after 25 years, I’ve finally finished General from the Jungle. According to the notation in the front flap, I started it in Patmos in 9/82, quite likely under your influence, there is some how indecipherable note to you from me about it. Somehow I didn’t get into it, however, but lugged it home. The book made it to Paris at some point, and I started reading it again in 4/98. No go. Being a man who can’t leave tasks hanging, I took up the book again yesterday — and, damn it, read it. Actually, a very good book — although the first few chapters proved unaccountably hard to get through, but once the progress of the glorious rebels became clear, I had someone to root for. Any more reading suggestions?
Yours truly,
D
I don’t like to leave a book (no matter how hard or bad it is) unfinished either, but after a decade I give up.
I wonder what your celebrity’s to-do list looks like.
I’d be curious to see it myself–for nostalgia’s sake if for no other reason.