GRGR(6) Discussion Opener

[David Casseres]

I wrote

>In my reading this is a *novel*, a book of narrative about human 
>experience.  Since it's an encyclopedic novel, it's got all kinds of 
>stuff in it:  life and death and sex and food and war (no peace really) 
>and history and science and yes, philosophy.  Also characters and 
>transformations and high-octane poetic imagery and always, throughout, 
>informing and transforming everything, beautifully wrought prose in the 
>service of profound emotional content.  Passion, no less.

Jeez, how did I leave out politics?  Lotsa politics, fascinating stuff.  
But it isn't a political treatise either.

Cheers,
David