Halls of the Dark Muse

I am dealing with some personal stuff right now, for all the gory details you can read about here:

http://www.online-literature.com/for...7#comment58777

And though I am starting to recover from it a bit more now, when it first all came down, I had attempted to continue my reading of Wings of the Dove, but could not get myself to concentrate on it at all and decided at that moment all I really wanted was to delve into something dark and brooding and read something which reflected my mood and that I could personally relate to.

So I asked for nominations, and began making a list of the books which struck me as most interesting and most what I am presently looking for to begin my exploration into the dark psyche, which does happen to be one of my favorite subjects.

I have started with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn which as Russian work immediately appealed to me, and they do dark, bleak, and brooding quite well, being one of the reasons why I have so much fallen in love with the Russians. And thus far I have to say I am loving it, there are aspects of it which remind me of Notes From Underground, which is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. So in my current state, in its own strange, and disturbing way I am finding the reading of it to be comforting.

I was out of two for a couple of days and while I was there happened upon a small book shop in which I picked up Fight Club, which I plan to be next on my list. I actually was tempted to pick it up and start reading right in the hotel, but I do have other books I am working on right now so I could not really fit it in.

So right now I am just going to indulge myself in the dark and the disturbed.