Welcome to week 10 of our Remedial Lit Summer Project, which features Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier.Hey! "Ford Madox Ford" is sort of a palindrome!
After the stomach-wrenching violence of Blood Meridian, it will be good to relax with a book whose own back cover brags:
"This is the saddest story I have ever heard."
post edited to add: Just started the book. The above quote is actually the first line. Even better...
Wait! Before you leap to conclusions, the jacket flap also promises:
"many comic moments, despite its catalogue of death, insanity, and despair."
Who's in?Why do I hate myself?
Tell me what you're reading this week...
Sunday, July 27, 2008
July 28 - The Good Soldier
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I am revisiting A Separate Peace because I forgot how good it is. I would recommend taking a second look at how well that story is written for anyone interested in YA.
I'm reading Ellie McDoodle: New Kid In School by Ruth McNally Barshaw. Great book to read under a shady tree with a glass of lemonade!
Boni, I think you are laughing a lot more than Anne and I...
I love this book--despite the sadness, the deluded narrator amuses me to no end. I might just reread it for fun, if'n I ever get through the Cooper.
Diane, I know how you feel about a good deluded narrator!
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