What I liked about Breakfast of Champions was the sprinkling in of details that seem unimportant. He challenges the notion that such details are unimportant, taking the sort of egalitarian stance that even seemingly insignificant details about minor characters are vital. That aspect of the book touched me!

I love the way you look at literature: how a poem is about single moment while a novel is about a collection of moments. That’s an exciting new idea for me. Thanks! I’m like you in that I lean towards single moments as well. We only inhabit one moment at a time. Also, most moments from reality, when compiled, would not form an elegant, traditional plot with rising action, a climax, falling action, etc. For this reason, poetry tends to follow more closely to our realities, IMO.

Thanks for listening to the first episode! I’m glad you’re looking forward to others. (our next one in this Saturday by the way ^.^).

Man, I haven’t read in SO LONG. I used to read all the time in elementary and middle school, but I kind of just stopped once I hit high school. It’s not that I don’t enjoy it, but I find myself online all the time, and especially during the school year, I don’t have time for both things… mostly I just read assigned books then. Every so often I do get engrossed in a novel though, and during those times it’s wonderful

I guess the reason why I like the books I do is probably that they capture my attention right from the start and make me constantly wonder what will happen next. If ever there is a book that’s still slow after the second-ish chapter, I have trouble getting through it and often don’t.

I’m also a poet rather than a novelist. It is definitely much easier to capture moments than to write a novel.

Let’s see, my favorite book of all time? It’ll still be Ender’s Game, something I read when I was in 7th grade? Yeah…I just found out that there is a new book in the series that came out and I’m way excited. I like books that criti