Posted by Racer on July 16, 2006, at 22:45:08
In reply to Re: Looking for a CIVIL book!, posted by Declan on July 14, 2006, at 18:36:23
> IIf you were trapped here you'd have to get by on 'The Science of Yoga' and Henry James and Jane Austin.
Do you find you need hip waders and a machete to get through James? I always did...
But if you like him, how about Edith Wharton? One of the only writers I count as a favorite and do NOT reread regularly. It's usually all I can do to get through her books once, without being hospitalized for dehydration from crying so much. (I do reread some of her short stories, though, and I think I've reread "Ethan Frome.")
And the Divine Miss Jane... How can anyone NOT like her? Some of hers I've reread so many times I can recite whole passages...
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