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epistrophy · 10-13-2007, 07:45 PM

Since I started this thread with something - a nonfiction book relating to the Holocaust - that another poster found "dense," I'll add one more book that offers a very different sort of reading experience. A book that is, at times, laugh-out-loud funny, and that is one of the best, most brilliant short-story collections that I've ever read: Lorrie Moore's Birds of America. I don't know of anyone whose writing - sentence for sentence - offers more pure pleasure. (Yes, her humor is often dark, but, uh, so is life - right?)

10-13-2007, 07:45 PM	#20
epistrophy Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Threads: 19 Posts: 80	Since I started this thread with something - a nonfiction book relating to the Holocaust - that another poster found "dense," I'll add one more book that offers a very different sort of reading experience. A book that is, at times, laugh-out-loud funny, and that is one of the best, most brilliant short-story collections that I've ever read: Lorrie Moore's Birds of America. I don't know of anyone whose writing - sentence for sentence - offers more pure pleasure. (Yes, her humor is often dark, but, uh, so is life - right?) Last edited by epistrophy : 10-13-2007 at 07:56 PM.