I just wished that counted...

It did make things much easier to cut'n'paste into a Word document.

Is this Ishiguro narrator a fussy, self-involved man writing in the first person?

I read When We Were Orphans, and didn't care much for it, and then got ten pages into The Remains of the Day before realizing that I was reading the exact same novel, except for all the details that were completely different.

I am in the middle of Louis Bayard's Mr. Timothy, and although it wears its literaryness on its sleeve, it's turning out to be a reasonably good novel. Very detail-oriented, so much so that I could map Tim's travels around the city from memory (and I've only ever been to London twice).

Is this Ishiguro narrator a fussy, self-involved man writing in the first person?

Nope, a young woman writing in the first person.

Sue, ita, I gave my mom her printout of Brokeback Mountain, and it absolutely made. her. day. Thanks again so much.

So, if I like Richard Price, and Lethem's "Fortress of Solitude" and I want a similar vibe but maybe want to stretch a little, but maybe not to Foster Wallace WTF? proportions, what might some brilliant person suggest?(Besides the Sam Cooke book, because I already want that one...the thought, you know, sends me, ha ha.)

Harry Potter prevents traumatic injury

Harry Potter prevents traumatic injury

This can't possibly be what I think it is.

EDIT: It wasn't, butit was still amusing and made my heart glow. Maybe those non-Harry Potter reading kids will learn that Literacy pays.

So, if I like Richard Price, and Lethem's "Fortress of Solitude" and I want a similar vibe but maybe want to stretch a little

Several days later, may I suggest Edward Conlon's Blue Blood ? Non-fiction, recently in paperback, a work about being a cop in the Bronx, and an interesting mix of city-born tunnel-vision with college literaryness. Funny stories, and biography of glad-handing (or tight-fisted) Irish grandparents, and thoughts about Serpico and The French Connection.

It came out in hardcover probably a year and a half ago (I saw him interviewed on Letterman), but I've only gotten around to reading him now.

That does sound very interesting, Nutty.

Looks like there's a remote chance HP7 will be out in 2007 (although, knowing JKR, it'll probably be more likely 2008).

J.K. Rowling Prepares Final Potter Book

By Associated Press, December 27, 2005

NEW YORK -- J.K. Rowling expects to have a busy 2006, "the year when I write the final book in the Harry Potter series."

"I contemplate the task with mingled feelings of excitement and dread, because I can't wait to get started, to tell the final part of the story and, at last, to answer all the questions (Will I ever answer all of the questions? Let's aim for most of the questions); and yet it will all be over at last and I can't quite imagine life without Harry," the British author wrote in a recent posting on her Web site.

The sixth installment of Rowling's fantasy series, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," came out last summer. It has sold more than 10 million copies in the United States alone.

Total worldwide sales of the Harry Potter books top 300 million.

On her Web site, Rowling said she had been "fine-tuning the fine-tuned plan of seven during the past few weeks." She noted that "reading through the plan is like contemplating the map of an unknown country in which I will soon find myself."

Rowling expects to start on the final book, not yet titled, next month.