"...obscure, internal, unformulated, and as secret as any complicity."

[decemberthirty]

I have, at long last, finished Memoirs of Hadrian. I have spent three months with the book, but now that it is finished I hardly know what to say about it. I have never had a reading experience quite like this one, in the sense that it felt both transcendent and like a slog, often simultaneously

Comments

[lolersk8z]

What an interesting relationship to have with a book. You do make it sound incredibly intriguing... if one has the right amount of energy and ambition. :D

[decemberthirty]

It certainly was interesting. I'm glad I did it, although I'm not sure whether I would recommend the book to many people--perhaps only to those looking for a very specific sort of thing....