I've been reading Water Music...

...by T. C. Boyle....a sort of comic historical novel that delights in pure outrageousness. It seems sort of sadistic in a way, because the author seems intent on putting his characters through the most extreme torment possible (and describing it in realistic detail). But then, suffering is always interesting, no?

It makes me wonder what people would write about if there were no problems in the world.

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