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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (37261)	5/9/1999 1:40:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

You found Pride and Prejudice, that supreme exposition on female psychology and history, boring only because you have no interest in female psychology. But, in this you are far from alone. Women are fascinated by male psychology. Men prefer to hunker down in their caves and shriek, "what do these damn wimmin want, and why can't a woman be more like a man, dammit!!!!!"

To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (37261)	5/9/1999 1:43:00 PM
From: E	Respond to of 108807

I couldn't finish Ragtime. I've read Pride and Prejudice three times, and even the third time, found it a page turner. One thing I disliked in Ragtime was the appropriation of historical figures who have actual histories, and the creation for them of mythical ones. To me, it seems like a cheap trick. I also don't like the general shallowness of Doctorow's character portrayal. Many of his characters patently "stand for" beliefs and sentiments. There are, in each of Doctorow's books, some felicitous, even singing, passages, I recognize. But for the most part, I don't consider him a first rate writer. But we can still be friends!