The reason I can't

[djinny]

Tess's feminine hope--shall we confess it--had been so obstinately recuperative as to revive in her surreptitious vision of a domiciliary intimacy continued long enough to break down his coldness even against his judgement.  Though unsophisticated in the usual sense, she was not incomplete; and it would have denoted deficiency of womanhood if she

Comments

[ms_cantrell]

hate that book. anyone who can read through that time period of literature is made of sturdier stuff than i am. notoriously depressing and pessimistic.

try a day in the life of ivan denisovich, or the house on mango street, or memoirs of a geisha.

[djinny]

I don't enjoy the depressing stuff at all.

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll add those to the list.

[nonspecific]

Durrr... what? I know those are all technically English words...

[djinny]

Yes, but put them all together...

[anonymous]

I read Love in the Time of Cholera last month. Depressing, but excellent writing and he had a lot of interesting things to say.
-Donna

[djinny]

I'm going to have to wait a while before I get to that one. I've been reading too many depressing books lately.

[djinny]

It's very depressing. blech.

[keriyoung]

You know, it's funny. One of our dorm girls is reading a Steinbeck book and I was talking about how nonsensical descriptive I remember it being and she was just telling me that way back when, authors got paid by the word, which could explain the excessive wordiness you are talking about. Hmmm.

[djinny]

That would explain it! I was telling PA that the whole story could be told in 60 pages if he would just get on with it.