There exists a definite likeness with organized religion’s governing impulse in the reverence inherent to the marathon reading. In one sense, carrying on to an audience like a non-ordained minister is the height of Christian heresy (though, certainly, most fiction is less offensive than, say, your average goth rocker’s sacrilegious imagery); in another, a novel might be the brilliant lived sermon that found no root in organized religion as currently composited. Faith and doubt exist in dialectic, after all. It is difficult to believe the person who claims to know one while having no experience of the other.

Jeff Price, The Millions : Miles to Go: Notes on Marathon Reading

I sound like a moron but the rest of the article is interesting. I like the idea of doing a Carver marathon, or another short story marathon, where each reader would read a different short story instead of segments of a novel. Who’s in?

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