Ha! Our taste in books may be about as different as it gets, but if there's one thing you and I share it's a love for the depressing.

Thanks for the recommendations. Unfortunately I didn't get them before my trip to the library yesterday, but I will keep them in mind for future reading. I hate baseball right now, so I'm not sure that Moneyball is what I want to be reading, but I have heard you mention the others in the past and thought they sounded interesting. And I did take your advice and get some nonfiction: a book that I've been meaning to read about the bizarre Oneida Community...

I haven't read The Corrections yet, but it's high on my to-read list.