Since that fight with Galigar at the book club about Empire Falls I have not wanted to read Russo.
He was obnoxious merely because I said that I thought there was too much foreshadowing and that spoiled the ecperience for me and that the last chapter seemed tacked on to a novel that had finished.
This book was very different.
No foreshadowing. It was a mystery up until the end what would actually happen. And the last chapter just tied things up and gave closure.
It was very funny and delightful.
One of my inner wishes has always been that I would work on a college campus and be part of the academic scene, more interested in literature than in discipline. I never did it.
I like reading about it.
I read another novel set on a campus recently. The name escapes me. It was written by a fellow i associate with criticism of a major author. It will come to me. Or not.
I liked that one as well.
But the other was a bit dark and this one was just hilarious. All the twists and turns and the narator's inner thoughts and feelings kept me enjoying.
There was one scene where he imagines confronting black men on his porch that was a pit politcally incorrect. It would bother me to suggest the book to Black readers. Today, that would have been edited out.
All the rest worked well. Great characters.
- the principle (attributed to William of Occam) that in explaining a thing no more assumptions should be made than are necessary. The principle is often invoked to defend reductionism or nominalism. Compare with principle of parsimony at parsimony
