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.