Completists' Club discussion

Is it too early to start thinking about 2015?

I achieved my 2014 goal of completing Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart. I have more Zola to read, but will not move him to completist status in 2015. In fact, I don't think I'll see *any* author completed in 2015 - I seem to have chosen some very prolific ones. I'll make headway on Anthony Trollope - 8 novels will put me past the halfway mark on his novels, so that is my minimum goal for 2015. I can't yet begin to think about his stories and non-fiction.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Is it too early to start thinking about 2015?"

Not at all. I've gotta take stock of my plentiful failure from Fourteen ; then I'll take stock of potential inCompletionisms for Fifteen. I'll be back.

2014 got me to Completionism on Vollmann and Mano and Young ; 2015 will see a begin again from the Vollmann zero point for a second Completionism over the coming years.

Otherwise, my GOALS for 2015 Completionism look like a recuperation of my past year's failures ::
Joseph McElroy
William H. Gass
Robert Coover
which should be modest enough.

2015 is my Year of Modernism, so will be re-reading a great deal (including Woolf, whom I have already Completed) - there are going to be some new authors for me too (Richardson, Benson and Butts, for example) that, should I fall in love, will be Completed as part of that project. I suppose I could try and complete Faulkner, but am not sure if I really want to - there are some real duds in his output

In 2015, I plan on making progress on being a Thomas Mann completist by reading Doctor Faustus and make progress on being a Pynchon completist by reading Bleeding Edge.

Nathan "N.R." wrote: "Otherwise, my GOALS for 2015 Completionism look like a recuperation of my past year's failures ::
Joseph McElroy
William H. Gass
Robert Coover"

Coover completionized!!! Next up, McElroy (four or five to roll!)

Nathan "N.R." wrote: "Coover completionized!!! Next up, McElroy (four or five to roll!) "

Well done!

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Nathan "N.R." wrote: "Coover completionized!!! Next up, McElroy (four or five to roll!) "

Well done!"

Danke! Of the several authors I've completionized, I've gotta say that perhaps only Gaddis challenges Coover for consistently out=performing himself.