AFTERWORDS


okay, maybe that wasn't the end.

This could go on and on and on and on. And on. Believe me, it could. And, though it would take an awfully long time for me to get tired of doing it, I imagine it wouldn't take too much more for you to get tired of reading it. So, compelled as I am to appropriate all of TheBarmaid's new One Book categories just as she has done to mine, I will today forego my tradition of adding another new category or two to the mix, lest she feel compelled to respond in kind and keep this thing going on and on and on and on.

And on.

ONE BOOK THAT MADE YOU WANT TO LEAD THE REVOLUTION
1919, John Dos Passos

ONE BOOK THAT WAS DEFINITELY BETTER AS A MOVIE
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien (Blasphemy to some, I'm sure. But for my money, it's not even close)

ONE BOOK ONLY YOUR MOTHER KNOWS WHY
That great short story anthology she shared with me when I was just beginning to discover great literature, the one with Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." (This one could easily have been filed earlier today under "One Book That Changed Your Life." Oh my, yes.)

ONE PERSON WHOSE LIST YOU'D LIKE TO HIJACK FROM THE BARMAID'S INNER CIRCLE
Katie.

Now.

THE END.

(Really.)

Posted: Sat - October 7, 2006 at 01:32 PM          

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