"A Month of Sundays" John Updike

[Gene]

Meeting will be Sunday, April 2nd - 6 PM at Lamplighter Roasting Co.

[Daniel]

Gene, you Catholic Bastard. I just realized we're reading this around Lent. Fuck!

[Gene]

LOL- That was the point!

[Daniel]

FYI- No used copies of this at Chop Suey.

[N]

I got mine from amazon.com. Read the very highly enlightening first page of the book on the website. I wonder what Gene was thinking ... (prolly having a good time in New Orleans)

[N]

Reading @ the DMV. What delight it is to read how he describes bodies, faces.

[Gene]

Don't forget pubic hair

[N]

Ha. Has anyone read any Philip Roth ... I wonder if all these masturbatory incantations of the narrator remind somebody of Portnoy?


BTW, This is prolly the first instance that I'd seen at least in which the writer makes his narrator diss the guy who he quoted in the epigraph. In this case being Paul Tillich.

[Hannah Marie]

Gene wrote: "Don't forget pubic hair"

oh god.

and his endless descriptions of his own penis. the egoism is killing me. i look forward to this meeting.

[N]

... actually there was one point where the protagonist talked about the unlikely difference between "having-a-good-life" and "feeling-good-about-one's-life". It gave me a pause. It's probably Plato from The Republic or Phaedo.