A Good Book

I picked up a couple books the other day that looked really interesting. I'll just mention the one I'm reading now because I really can't say much about the other one just yet. It's entitled 'Ocean Sea' and it's by an Italian author by the name of Alessandro Barrico (it is a translation, but it's incredibly beautifully written). As any good author must at times, he tends to often ignore the rules of writing one learns in an institution. At times, he stops mid-sentence and at others a single sentence will last the better part of a page. At times, I find myself lost in the beauty of his words and at others I simply find myself lost. To say what it's about is rather difficult, there is no singular storyline. It is perhaps easiest to say that it is about the sea and it's immeasurable vastness. It's about truth, deception, awe, bewilderment, salvation, and perhaps most of all, the dark depths of the human soul. At present, I'd say it reminds me of two books: 'Life of Pi' and 'Heart of Darkness'. However, I'm only part way through so we'll see how it pans out.