An excellent review—adding this book to my list! Such beautiful writing, so consistently on display at TMR, reminds me of a phrase that I have been misttributing to Philip Roth for 15 years or so (it's actually Saul Bellow): "Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath." There's plenty of excellent writing out there, still, but also plenty of crap. You've given me the feeling of a "word bath," and I appreciate it. :)
Seattle is obsessed with authenticity because we're forced to spend our teens years do extra-curriculars to get into college rather than dating, we do homework rather than hobbies, and our culture of anime, video games, and rap music is attacked as superficial and obscene
An excellent review—adding this book to my list! Such beautiful writing, so consistently on display at TMR, reminds me of a phrase that I have been misttributing to Philip Roth for 15 years or so (it's actually Saul Bellow): "Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath." There's plenty of excellent writing out there, still, but also plenty of crap. You've given me the feeling of a "word bath," and I appreciate it. :)
Seattle is obsessed with authenticity because we're forced to spend our teens years do extra-curriculars to get into college rather than dating, we do homework rather than hobbies, and our culture of anime, video games, and rap music is attacked as superficial and obscene