A Million Little Pieces

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Originally Posted by Jyqm

That completely answers my question, thank you! And I guess we agree somewhat on the state of the American literary imagination, though I've got a bit less sympathy than you do for those folks who don't or can't get as much out of fiction as they would out of an inspirational memoir. But I guess I've never really made any bones about being something of a literary snob. Now, back to my eighteenth century German epic poetry... (There's centaurs!)

Meh, at least they're reading something instead of sitting in front of the telly and playing video games for three hours a day.

It is somewhat disconcerting to see what passes for literature these days, we do agree on that, and it's nothing short of depressing to peruse the bestseller lists. I remember getting quite a laugh a year or so back when "1776" by David McCullough was continually sitting atop the nonfiction bestseller lists. You just know that people were only buying it to show it off in their bookshelves and I'd be amazed if 20 percent, a rather high estimate, even read the first fifteen pages or so. I still go to look it up on Amazon just to see it's current position and get a good chuckle. These are the masses who make books by Sharon Rocha and Amber Frey bestsellers.

(Now that this relatively intelligent and interesting - if I say so myself, anyway - discussion has reached something of a conclusion, by the way, the rest of you can return to your period of "peace." I hear that Jennifer Aniston did... something... today. Probably.)

I heard that she urinated and took a breath earlier today, though my source could have bad intel.