Michael Odom wrote:
>
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:43:06 -0600, Damsel in dis Dress
> > wrote:
>
> >Kate Connally >, if that's their real name, wrote:
> >
> >>BTW, I just started reading One Flew Over the
> >>Cuckoo's Nest. I have never seen the movie except for
> >>parts of it here and there. Anyway, I came across the
> >>book while browsing in the library so decided to read it.
> >>It may be affecting my mood. ;-)
> >
> >I've never seen the movie, but I read the book (of my own volition) when I
> >was in high school. For some reason, I had a real fascination with mental
> >illness. Go figure.
> >
> >>(I trying to read all the classics I never read when I
> >>should have - Hemingway stuff, Twain stuff, ancient
> >>Greek stuff, etc. I've been working on For Whom the
> >>Bell tolls for about 6 or 7 years now. Even longer for
> >>The Innocents Abroad. I just can't seem to get interested
> >>enough to keep reading. Although the Twain is definitely
> >>good, so I don't know what my problem is. Probably that
> >>it's not a mystery novel - that's my latest thing. And
> >>Hemingway is just plain boring. Somebody please explain
> >>to me how this stuff got to be a classic? There are classics
> >>that I have read and really enjoyed - Catch 22 for one (read
> >>it at least 3 times over the years) and The Great Gatsby for
> >>another - but other stuff is deadly boring. Oh, well, I'll
> >>probably never be well-rounded enough.) But I've heard
> >>enough quotes from them that I can answer all the Jeopardy
> >>questions. ;-)
> >
> >Have you read any Ray Bradbury? Great stuff! I guess I'd call it sci-fi.
> >I haven't read any of his work in decades. I'd love to go back and read
> >them again.
> >
> >My current fascination is with books by Sylvia Browne (a psychic).
> >
> >Carol
> >
> >.
> I dig South American fiction (in translation). Gabriel Garcia Marques
> -- One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera; Jorge
> Luis Borges -- Ficciones (and almost anything else); Jorge Amado --
> Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands.
>
> That last one is on topic, by the way. The title character has a
> cooking school in Bahia, Brazil.

When it comes to foreign lit I recently discovered Andrew
McCall Smith who was born in Zimbabwe but lived in Bostwana for many
years. He wrote a "mystery" series about Precious Ramotswe
of Botswana. The first book in the series was "The Ladies
No. 1 Detective Agency. There are about 5 books in the
series and he has other series - the Prof. von Igelfeld series
(not mysteries) and the Sunday Philosophy Club. He is a
wonderful writer and his books are hilarious.

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?