ATDATD Prep

[Keith McMullen]

I didn't even take much Lit. in college so am uneducated about  
literary criticism. I'm currently reading Eco's _The Limits of  
Interpretation_ which I find much more entertaining than his novels.  
Here he strikes a nice balance between the reality of the text and  
the imagination of the reader. Are there other sources that are along  
those lines? Ones that would be comprehensible to a laygeezer? Ones  
that are entertaining as well as informative?