Yeah Our Man was just a little too light for me at the time I think.

Graham Greene - I didn’t like Our Man in Havana very much, but I proceeded into the other main ones like The Comedians, The Quiet American, and especially The Confidential Agent and The Power and the Glory and liked them a lot more.

Love watching these karma-farming posts get increasingly convoluted. What’s a book where it’s a bad thing if someone likes it, but if it’s their favorite book it means they are probably a good person?

That’s the one.

I was pretty happy to get through Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West. A lot of description of old churches to wade through, but a lot of great travelogue and historical material as well of a place (pre-war Yugoslavia) that one can’t really replicate.

Thanks - very interested in Marlene in the past couple of years, so maybe I’ll check it out. The novel that sparked my interest interest was Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe, which I’d recommend.

I was pretty into Hopping Freight Trains in America by Duffy Littlejohn, though I am not nearly adventurous enough for that (and it’s from thirty years ago anyway, I assume railroad technology has changed).

Can’t wait for the wheeling and dealing of the convention floor! But: will probably vote the straight party ticket in the end.

You may be interested in a project by Pierre Menard…