Speaking of lists...

[Michael Bailey]

yes, it was The Bell Jar.

Funny, I just noticed that sort of resembles Belle Jour.  Maybe that
pun was made in the text but I read it long ago and don't remember
seeing it.  It was a frightening story of an intelligent person's
alienation and helplessness was how I read it.  Is there another way
to read it?

Another one that scared me as a young reader was "Silent Snow, Secret Snow"

The Golden Bowl, like every the other James book I have picked up
except the Aspern Papers, was a non-starter for me.
But hope springs: I just acquired The Princess Cassamassima.



On 11/20/08, Michael Richard <veg at dvandva.org> wrote:
>
>  On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Michael Bailey wrote:
>
>  > VERY famous book, something about a glass bowl or Mason jar in the
>  > title, I've blocked remembering it
>  > because it was so sad and depressing
>
>
>         _The Golden Bowl_ by Henry James?  789 pages, about the
>  oh so perfectly cultured in their perfect world, rich beyond
>  belief and deserving, because they're the best.  I'll probably
>  keep reading James, but gee, couldn't have everybody just
>  ignored him out of the canon?
>         Or is it _The Bell Jar_ by Sylvia Plath?  only some 400
>  pages.  The computer in my kitchen is named Plath.
>
>         veg
>
>


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