--- dsk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For years, when I was younger and much more serious,
> I read only the
> "classics", usually by culture (love French
> literature, Les Miserables
> especially, and all of Balzac and Stendahl,
Despite the fact that I majored in French, and despite
the fact that I love 19th century English literature,
I never could get into Balzac, Stendahl and so on. I
have no idea why that is.
>... but forced myself through the Russian books; each
> character having 5 nicknames
> that sound nothing like the original name got on my
> nerves; at the end of War
> and Peace I still had to refer to the list of
> characters and all their
> nicknames at the front of the book, sad, I know, but
> by then I'd gotten the
> "war is bad" message a million times, and I
> apparently was never very engaged
> by the characters, whatever their name is, whoever
> they were).
>
This cracked me right up - can I ever identify with
that! What a relief to find I'm not the only one!
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