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Maybe I'll take "Albanian Sasquatch" as my avatar! :-)

Well, "literary" fiction covers a lot of ground -- basically anything that's above the level of best seller stuff (romances, Grisham, a lot of Chick Lit), but not necessarily a literary classic. I like something a with a more than pedestrian writing style, and aspirations, even if it's not...

Thanks for the welcome, all I don't know how often I'll be able to participate, but I'll try not to be a stranger. And I promise not to talk about Shakespeare -- except the works, which I love. :-) As for Polly's question, Sasquatch and "bigfoot" have become fairly interchangeable generic...

Hi Polly -- In tend to think that the Earl of Oxford had some involvement in the works of Shakespeare, but I don't bring it up in casual conversation, or to strangers, or on boards like this one, where a standard response would include equal parts mockery and vitriol. :-) Enough said. George

Hi, I've been lurking for a while, but only signed up last month. I'm too close to 60, live outside of Albany, New York, read fairly omnivorously (both fiction and abstruse non-fiction (music, cosmology, science, adventure)). I like classical music, camping and hiking, art and theatre. Will...

Okay, this is a weird title. Mrs. G reads mysteries; I don't much, but sometimes she passes one over to me because there's something in it she thinks I'll like. I happen to like classical music, so after she finished it, she downloaded it onto my Kindle, and I found myself reading it. It's a...

Addendum: Actually the type of book that intriques me from just an intellectual standpoint, are those that I really like the first time 'round, but that DON'T re-read well. One that quickly comes to mind is One Hundred Years of Solitude. It's a fantastic book and every bit deserving of the...

Some sort of mental block, I guess (I'm the same way with Bruckner symphonies). I just don't find the Joyce to be interesting; and Faulkner's stream-of-consciousness technique just doesn't put me inside the character's head in any way I want to be. :-) I keep going back to try to understand...

I have never NOT re-read books -- going back to when I was 10 and read most of the Dr. Doolittle books three or four times. If you enjoy it once, why not more? My friends were watching the same Three Stooges shorts on TV over and over again. There are books that I really like -- both...