Adam Joseph Drici

Exactly How Books Work

[via BoingBoing]

Newest of the I-29 Mystery Billboards

Photo taken on I-29 South in Missouri, between St. Joseph and Kansas City.

The billboard first appeared sometime in 2010 bearing the word “MARXIST”, only to be subsequently replaced with “NARCISSIST” and the current “SLEEPER” I snapped a picture of yesterday.

Top 10 Longest Novels in the English Language

1. Mission Earth, L. Ron Hubbard: 1.2 million words
2. Sironia, Texas, Madison Cooper: 1,100,000 words
3. Clarissa, Samuel Richardson: 969,000 words
4. Poor Fellow My Country,  Xavier Herbert: 850,000 words
5. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, Marguerite Young: 700,000 words
6. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth: 593,674
7. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand: 565,223 words
8. Remembrance Rock, Carl Sandburg: 532,030 words
9. Gai-Jin, James Clavell: 487,700 words
10. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace: 484,001 words

Infinite Jest is the only one I’ve read myself. Thankfully, I only ever had to read excerpts from Clarissa.

Listverse (via Cynical-C [via J-Walk])

Clouds over Big Sur

I’m in the middle of reading Henry Miller’s Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch and ran into this photo over at Boing Boing.