7/30/2005 09:34:00 AM|||Garnet|||

Loved Harry Potter & THBP.

Adored Little Earthquakes. (new moms, young moms, wanna-be-moms should definitely read this book! I laughed and cried throughout the whole thing!)

After 20 pages into Fortune's Rocks, I realized I "didn't care." Reaching the "Didn't/Don't Care" point of a book, for me, means that I am not excited to pick up the book in question and read some more. And I have to stop and ask myself, "Self, do I care what happens to this character? Do I care what is going to happen in the rest of the story?" And other such inquiries. I love Anita Shreve but this book is just too formal for me. And reading about a young woman who's about to have an illcit affair with an older married man really isn't my cup of tea (neither are books about women who have been married for several years, only to suddenly realize that they need to leave their husbands in order to rediscover themselves and become the independant, strong women they could've been if only their husbands hadn't stiffled them). To each her own!

So I just started I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe. I've never read any of Wolfe's novels before but I remember my parents often having them lying around the house. This book's on loan from my in-laws. So what's the deal with Tom Wolfe? Is he ultra egocentric or what? Here's why I get that impression of him: On the book's jacket and spine, his name is in in HUGE bold block letters with the title of the book gently present in light cursive print. And at the bottom of each odd-numbered page is his name going vertical, intersecting with the title of the book on the horizontal, both in the corner just next to the page number. Like he really wants me to know that HE wrote this book! Is there something I should know about this author that the rest of the literary world is privy to?

And, also, can someone please clarify to me what "unabridged" means? Thanks.

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