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Exactly! If I put that aside though, it really is brilliant writing, for the most part, and deserving of the praise it has received.
I loved Middlesex, even though the last 100 pages or so weren't as good as the rest of the book and kinda felt like they belonged in a different book altogether.
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume 1 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (The whole reason why I even got this book cause a friend asked if I was going to buy it since I had just bought the movie Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr in it. So I quickly went to the Literature section at a Borders Express at the mall and, long and behold, there was only 1 copy of this book left. I grabbed it and started reading it as soon as I got back to my dorm. I like it, it's a good read. Full of twist and turns, and I really like the attention to detail to the Victorian times in England.)
It's like you're Lincoln, and he's Kennedy or something!
The History of Sexuality Vol. 1 by Michel Foucault
Foucault is cool. I had to read a bunch of his theoretical writing in college, and most of it has stuck with me. It can be hard to crack at first, but once you get a sense of where he's going, it's rewarding. He's got some crazy/fascinating ideas.
GAF, I can't decide if you're the most likely or the least likely person on this forum to have read Foucault in the past. Either way, it's awesome.
Ha, yeah, well I was an English major and you probably know how some English professors can be...very into their critical lit. theory and art philosophy and linguistics and all that jazz. I had one young professor in particular who was obsessed with Foucault. The work he referenced most often was Foucault's "Of Other Spaces," and we used it to discuss James Joyce and Brigid Brophy and all that crazy shit.
I like Joyce, particularly Dubliners, his short story collection.