It is my opinion that James Joyce does not care about the reader in a traditional sense. He does not actively guide you through his work. For this reason I've heard many people trash talk Ulysses. It is a book that teaches you to look beyond context and insert your own experience into the piece. It will develop you into a marathon-endurance reader, and the small moments of clarity will stay with you.

Borges is one of my key inspirations as a writer. He is strange and beautiful, an incredible balance of head and heart and bizarre instinct. Do not read it quickly. Take your time and experience what he's trying to say.

This book is a grand attempt at a certain structure. It's certainly not a failure, it moves through a span of ages, and doesn't force any active relation between the plot lines. Only issue I had was that it's structure is a little obvious. You can tell what he's trying to do, which can be somewhat jarring.

I struggled with this book, and I'm trying to process why. It just never reached me emotionally, and rarely struck a chord intellectually. That being said, I read it nine years ago, so my palette might have been too rudimentary. I will give it another try. No book is read until it's read twice.

A fascinating piece, if not aggressively entertaining. Delillo could have written this as a political thriller, a bit of otiose historical fiction, but instead he focused quite intimately with the supposed mind of America's most famous assasin (assuming he actually committed said assasination), making this book admittedly more dry but also more satisfying. Some books are entertaining in the moment and then forgotten. Libra is remembered.