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To: epicure who wrote (4665)	5/22/2004 10:41:44 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 51759

Good morning! We are getting ready to send Ammo back this morning and I am sad. He is such a joy to have home, but LA calls. He has 250 headshots, a resumé and his professor's blessings. I hope now he has some good luck come his way this summer. We figure one commercial would pay his tuition. Surely that's not too much to ask. One teeny little DELL commercial would be very nice. OK- I will settle for a local carpet cleaning ad. A used car lot promo. A job waiting tables will also do. Vinegar Hill is well-written. I just thought it was so bleak. I did what you did-- pilfered- and I didn't understand a lot of what I read. My home wasn't an intellectual one, but contained avid readers with weekly library trips and book club selections. I ploughed through Exodus and Catch 22 and On the Beach and a lot of stuff in elementary school that I didn't understand at all. I wonder why I even kept at them. I think reading is a condition- similar to obsessive- compulsive disorder. There were some good books too though- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and I loved THe Egg and I. I read Peyton Place under the covers with a flashlight. I was a tacky reader and I had no guidance except for my father giving me Letters From the Earth which for a good little Catholic girl was quite interesting. Anyway, I think the Norton's are a great idea for the reasons you gave earlier. You don't have to commit to things in a big way. It's like poking your finger in the bottoms of all the chocolates in Forrest Gump's box. (Didn't you use the box of choc metaphor earlier?) Let me know about Primo Levi! I am in the middle of the JAne Austen Club. You would like the book club meeting parts unless you wanted to argue with them about their critiques. What kind of tests do you use for the reading improvement?