Two Good Reasons
Paul Mackin
paul.mackin at verizon.net
Thu Feb 20 12:49:44 CST 2003
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 12:45, David Morris wrote:
>
> Chocolate and Vanilla, I guess.
>
> On the surface Ada is a memoir written by a man in his old age recounting his
> life-long incestuous love affair with his half-sister.
Didn't you think it was ingenious how Van and Ada were both secretly
fathered by Demon out of Marina, true brother and sister. Their half
sibling was Lucette.
This in itself was worth the price of admission. However i agree with
most of what you say about the book. Except that the word play got
tedious.
p.
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