by Herman Wouk
I read this a few years ago, after listing to Jimmy Buffett's concert CD of the play he made out of it. A fun cautionary tale about a middle-aged Broadway PR guy who has a mild heart attack and buys a hotel on a fictional Caribbean island. Very quickly Norman runs afoul of the trials and tribulati...
I’m going to finish this, but more out of grim determination than anything else. There are so many isms that seem to come so naturally to the period. I don’t know why they shock me so. It isn’t as if I never read older works. I think one of the things I find most distressing is his casual assump...