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I read 44 books in 2004 many of them 500 pages or more - with a full time job is that considered reading too much or not enough? It was a record for me. I know that when Bertrand Russell was in prison at the beginning of last century, he said he read 200 books and wrote 2. I think he was in...

I'll try to deviate from the whoring... Lots of what was once considered entertainment is now considered art. Shakespeare wasn't considered art in his lifetime, he was entertainment. He needed to sell tickets. The bawdy parts were for "the people" and likely increased sales. The Marx Brothers...

That's not an insult. It's just my website. I'm new. I've been poking around the forums. I've seen a lot of good stuff about a lot of good authors. But I haven't seen much about Salman Rushdie. Is he still read or talked about or has everyone given up on him after Fury? Also, not much about...

Has anyone made it through Mason & Dixon? I've heard it's arduous but well worth it.

I just finished re-reading If on a winter's night a traveler and it is an excellent book. It is slightly gimmicky, but the gimmick works (by the end of the book the gimmick sort of reveals itself). I wouldn't call it a postmodern novel. It more pokes fun at postmodernism (via the character of...

Vonnegut wrote a lot of good stuff, at least until the turn of the millenium. Cat's Cradle is another good one. It features ice that is stable at room temperature (Ice-9); I'm surprised no one's made a movie of this one yet. My favorite short story of his is "Harrison Bergeron" (the obvious...

Ah yes. The days are gone when a short story in a national mag would land an author mega-bucks. Kurt Vonnegut talks about these golden days often with spite (well, what doesn't he talk about with spite?). His first published story, sometime around 1950, earned him $5000. That's a happy spasm...