Misc.Appetizer, to invigorate posters into reacting, kinda like chum....

[Michael Bailey]

what IJ does have - I'd go on at greater length about the lack of fun
if Mr Wallace was alive to kick around - is sympathetic characters.  I
quickly twigged that nothing very fun was going to happen, but the big
lug recovering from addiction and the young twerp screwing up his
great chances at the academy were both plenty simpatico and I couldn't
abandon them...



On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> IJ is interesting, but after a couple hundred pages, I realized that I
> wasn't willing to make the time commitment required. That hasn't stopped me
> from any of Pynchon or TR, or other "large" books, so maybe there's more to
> it than time...