reading list
Scottie Bowman (bowman@mail.indigo.ie)
Sun, 22 Mar 1998 18:49:18 +0000
`...I INSIST she read all of the included books discussed
in the postings.... I'd appreciate any input you great people
suggest...'
Many of us go through life haunted with guilt & feelings of
personal failure because of the `marvellous' books we've had
recommended to us by kindly, old, twinkly-eyed teachers -
& which, despite all, we've never managed to finish.
Having one's MOTHER recommend a book, though, must surely
give any proper-thinking sixteen year old girl a perfect, guilt-free
excuse to ignore it for the rest of one's natural.
Since the vast majority of books are an unblievable waste of time
& spirit, it strikes me that we have here a fine opportunity to save
at least one young woman from years of unnecessary suffering.
I guess we all have long, long lists of `highly recommended' titles.
I'll kick off by suggesting the entire oeuvres of Jack Kerouac,
Anthony Trollope, Honore de Balzac, & Herman Hesse. All but
eight words of Herman Melville. All of Tom Wolfe. All of ....
(I may be here quite some time.)
Scottie B.