Every time I've been away from it for some years and am thinking of reading it again, I worry that I must have been wrong about it, since the literary and academic and book-club worlds make so little of it.
I would say if you are thinking of reading this book, prepare for a whirlwind of emotions.
"When people say they haven't read any of my work and they are thinking of reading Lanark, I say, 'No!
If you don't know Spanish and have never read Don Quixote or are thinking of reading it again, then this is the English translation I would recommend, recreating as it does the novel's vibrant (and, to the modern sensibility, sometimes cruel) humour, and doing equal honour to its pathos.
Other commenters joined in to say they'd been thinking of reading my book, but now wouldn't.
Mention you've been thinking of reading that author as well.
And perhaps, as a result, you are thinking of reading the book.
So this year, perhaps pressing our luck (and patience), I'm thinking of proposing the reading of an additional text: Thomas Jefferson's letter to Roger Weightman of June 24 , 1826
I'm thinking of an article I read in the newspaper a while back about struggling schools in Los Angeles.
Spoiler Alert: If you have not seen Season 6, Episode 22 of "The Vampire Diaries," "I'm Thinking of You All the While," do not continue reading.
A covering letter supposedly read: "Dear X, I'm thinking of getting into showbusiness.
