the patriarch

Could be reading, but the book I'm reading, The Autumn of the Patriarch by Garcia Marquez, is not exactly the easiest read, ie not something you can read to pass the time, without too much energy, he writes in a style where he uses very little punctuation, and he uses almost a free-association kind of writing, but he doesn't just associate freely, he directs it, and you end up miles away from where you started, but you don't know exactly how you got there, because really there are no pauses, and a few pages take you forever because you run out of breath reading them, and when the chapter ends you take a long time out just to stop and orient yourself, because he creates a world that is remarkable, but so dense you need vacations from it to absorb it, an experiment for him, this book, that style, playing with language, seeing what it can do. Quite something.