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Hmmm, let's see...been a bit of a while since I updated. I finished The Accidental Tourist shortly after my last post. It was a fine read I suppose, but certainly nothing earth shattering. In the end, I just didn't really care about the characters. I feel like I had some more thoughts that I wanted to put down, but cannot remember at the moment. Oh well.

After finishing Accidental Tourist, I started All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque. It's one of the books that I really feel I should have read at some point during my education, but since I didn't, I'm now trying to fill in those holes. Unfortunately, I read about 30 pages of it and then left it at my sister's house in Chicago. That was a little frustrating because I was starting to like it, and I was already at the airport when I realized I hadn't packed it. Argh. So once again I found myself at the mercy of the poor selection at the airport bookstore, but I did somewhat better than last time and I have Oprah's book club to thank, believe it or not. I got The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, and I really don't think I would have found it at the airport unless Oprah had recently anointed it. Regardless, I've read a little bit of it, and really I really like what I've read so far. It's a little early yet for me to say much about it, but I'm enjoying it so far.
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I'm still reading The Accidental Tourist, and I guess I'm liking it a little bit more than I was last time I posted, but I still don't think it's especially good. Tyler's characters seem more like collections of stereotypes than like any real people I know. They each have one major characteristic that identifies them, and Tyler doesn't delve any deeper than that. Muriel is flaky and illogical, Julian is superficial, and both of Macon's brother are defined solely by their quirky obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms. It just makes it kind of boring. Tyler may still surprise me with some kind of knock-em-dead ending that will redeem the book, so I'm reluctant to write it off completely yet.

In journal-maintenance notes, I have created a memories section for entries about the best books that I have read since I've been keeping this journal. I find myself looking for these entries with some frequency, so now they will be more easily located.
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