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[jeffp]

This was a gripping read. A real page turner. I found the instructions for controlling the ceiling light particularly intense reading.

*sigh*

As you might suspect, this wasn't something I'd intended to include in my list, but I've decided it does count. It's well over 200 pages long, and dry as dust, but I suspect it makes more sense than Ulysses. (Heck, if My Little Golden Book About Zogg and Doug's The Art of Shaving count, then the back of my Raisin Bran box might count too, but I digress.) Some good did come of reading it, as I did encounter a couple of nits that I have to ask the dealer about next week.

Moving off topic a bit:

We are selling our 95 Acura Integra to our excellent mechanic to make room for the new Honda Element. Why am I doing that, you might ask? Good question. The Acura is in very good condition, and would probably get me another 100,000 miles without much expense (and it's got 204,000 on it now), and it's mileage is excellent as well. However, it's a 2 door, and it doesn't comfortably sit more than 2. Rear seat passengers encounter significant chin/knee interference.

Recently my parents visited us here. They rented a Ford POS and my wife and I were ferried around by my father, who was nervous about both the car (which drove like an ancient living room couch) and the narrow mountain roads where we live. We couldn't drive the rental, and we had nothing that would haul the 4 of us comfortably. In a couple of months my inlaws will arrive for a stay, and I am not going to go through being held to the whims -- and vehicle -- of my visitors again. Not if there is any way we can avoid it.

So we bought a new Honda Element. It has lots of room, plenty of pep, and seats 4 comfortably. The milage is lower, alas, but hopefully not by too much. I like the vehicle a lot, though. It is stylistically "interesting."

I hope to get back to my other reading challenges in short order, but there are other distractions at the moment.

Cheers to you all.

--jeffp

[alyson]

Wow, you actually READ the thing?? If so, it is worthy of putting on this list, in my opinion. The harder it is to slough through to the end, the more you should get to crow about it.

[jeffp]

Yup... I actually did read it. Sad, really...
--jeffp

[galactic_dev]

Thank the Gods that you warned us that this review would contain "spoilers."

I decided not to read the review so that I won't have the ending spoiled when I read it next.