What I've Finished Reading

In the end I decided to keep A Confederacy of Dunces, though I don't know why I should. The beginning is good and the last two or three pages are good and in between there are a lot of almost unbearably tedious set pieces, but I like Mrs. Reilly and Santa and the hapless old John Bircher and Darlene's boffo bird act. And ( Read more... )

What I've Finished Reading

The Island by Aldous Huxley. Let's be honest with ourselves for a second: the only reason I'm haunted by the feeling that I'm not being fair to Aldous Huxley is that I know he has fans whose taste I respect, not because I'm actually of two minds about the thing. It's not like Lawrence Durrell where I couldn't shake the ( Read more... )