It’s one TINY scene of an entire amazing book.

Elizabeth George has Zimmer frames in EVERY book. (For Americans, that’s a walker, as in a mobility aid.)

Is that the Koontz where the guy has 4 balls and no dick?

I regretted reading The Rise of Life on Earth by Joyce Carol Oates because it made me feel so terrible. It’s the only book I’ve ever experienced like that, and I read A LOT, and a lot of very fucked up books too. It has this muted sort of deep pathos that left me just bluntly stunned. I will not re-read it, though I think it’s extreme well-written to produce such a strong emotion.

I finished it and it was okay, but the writing almost dropped me in the first few pages. It reminded me of reading the storyline prompts in a video game.

That is a TERRIBLE title.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.

2 “paragraphs.”

It is. It’s just that Vonnegut doesn’t really get discussed a lot, though he is mentioned often.

The Grapes of Wrath.

Not so much that I’d hate the subject matter, but I thought it was going to be a lot more difficult. (It was assigned in a uni class.)

Turned out to be an amazing novel!

I agree! I loved this book and found the concept so fascinating and thought it was well executed.

Judith Michael.

I read one as a 12 year old. It included the explicit description of the rape of a 13 year old… basically child pornography.

It came up in therapy for me a few years ago.