Love Story – 2/5 What do you say about a 50 year novel that feels dead on arrival? This is the novel that became the movie that is often referenced, and seldom watched. The novel is fine. It’s depressingly fine. Our narrator goes to Harvard, meets a girl, they get married, he goes to law school, she gets sick, and she dies. In the middle he loves her father, because he hates his father. His parents mildly but not so mildly disown him (lucky), and […]
First mixed bag of the year!
Love Story by Erich Segal
In Bluebeard's Castle by George Steiner
Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
Masscult and Midcult by Dwight Macdonald
Running Dog by Don Delillo
Chronicle in Stone by Ismael Kadare
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowksi
Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
War in Val D'orcia by Iris Origo
Through Blood and Fire at Gettysburg by Joshua Chamberlain