>Kevin, you know I like you and all, but I just don't have the words to tell you how much I disagree with you on this one. Although it occurs to me that I might have mentioned it before (once or twice).
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>OK, how about Lady Chatterley's Lover....is that a better book? :)
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>Maybe not...how about the biography of Roy Halladay? I think we can agree that's a great book!!!
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>Actually, Ayn Rand would not have liked me. I've read that she DESPISED men with beards.

But seriously though, some day when you're on your death bed, and you want those last few hours to seem like a hundred years, read The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. On the other hand, part of the problem may have been the translation. It was translated into English. Otherwise I'd never have bothered with it.