William wrote: > Yes, but not recently. Too many writers, too many unread books.
Picked up Midnight's Child today at Know Knew Books and read a few pages at lunch. I like his style already; he writes very well. I read the first page and a half of another of his (forget the name, published in 1999) and was intrigued by it as well, but it was a first English edition hardback and a bit pricey so I laid off. Midnight's Child is first person and the protagonist is born at the moment of India's independance. This is interesting because at the lecture the other night, Rushdie explained that he was born something like six weeks prior to that event and his extended family was spit up by the partitian, and he said he had to put up with jokes forever after that he was in some way responsible for the whole thing. I also found a copy of Snow Crash there. There is almost _never_ any Stephenson stuff there. I've already read it of course, but I think my (Enlish Major) son might enjoy it. He needs a break from all that Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Melville, Solzhenitsyn crapola anyway. Doug _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
