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Got caught and waylaid by a little book Something Missing by Matthew Dicks, sofar it's wonderful, a story that's incredibly intimate. You look at a small world through the eyes of a sweet guy. It feels like "Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain", or maybe it's because of the music I'm listening to... Look! A ladder! Maybe it leads to heaven, or a sandwich.

Patricia Cornwell (and I haven't read even one of her books). I just can't stand her personality. Likewise! The American crime novelist Patricia Cornwell was last night accused of "monstrous stupidity" for ripping up a canvas to prove that the Victorian painter Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2001/dec/08/art.artsfeatures

The rights of the governess ?? I'm not sure CB has ever before quite been proposed as a social novelist. Her look at all the things you mention is basically sentimental. They are props in a turbulent romanesque plot. The kind of things that parsons' daughters are scared with so they'll eat their vegetables at the manse dinner. What was her social theory? One might as well suggest that The Mysteries of Udolpho is about inefective...

I don't really get all these people that say his new stuff sucks and he stopped being a good writer after he a) quit drugs or b) got hit by a motor vehicle. His early books are just as uneven as his newer stuff. Yes! Yes! Dig him! Now consider his soul---stop awhile and consider.

Like which ones? I didn't read any of those for my classes. --- There'll be no butter in hell!

Had to return Infinite Jest to the library for the time being (it has a lot of holds) I hate that!! I had to return Pattern in the Carpet without even having cracked it open, cos of holds. Luckily, our statewide libraries are severely under-used by residents, so this doesn't happen often, just with new books and dvds. I'm reading one of my Amazon Vine books, about a mafioso, but I'm taking my time so I can have marathons of...

David Coperfield.

We read Wuthering Heights in 12th grade (Senior in high school). The rest of the books listed, never. --------------------------------- "It was night. I could tell because it was getting dark."

Very intriguing story that's all about writing, identity, and language. You might like The Blindfold by Siri Hustveldt. She is Auster's wife. The dude abides

And knowing the rules of effective literature is important (whether to follow them or to beak them in the most effective manner.) But if the idea of taste or opinion is a bourgeois invention, the the idea of applying objectivity to the abstract (art, literature, entertainment) is an equally flawed proletarian invention. This makes no sense whatsoever. 'Proletarian' refers to the members of the industrial working class. You think...