Long summary of book recommendations 7/00

[Dave Monroe]

... J.M. Coetzee's Foe, along with, then, Michel Tournier's Friday?  On that
revisionist Robinson Crusoe tip ...

Watson wrote:

> I want to echo the recommendation for Coetzee...I have read Waiting For
> The Barbarians and Disgrace, and both are stunning, particularly the
> latter. I am willing to bet the guy wins a Nobel in the next ten to
> fifteen years. Best,
>                 Graham
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>         "If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read
> some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the
> parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through
> use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be
> injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by
> enfeebling the moral part of our nature."
>                                                 -Charles Darwin
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