Omaha/New Orleans

I have been informed there's a website called "Good Reads", where you can have friends with whom to share reading experiences. I joined it, but I'm doing my reviews here, not there. Here, it's all about Me!!! Bwah ha ha ha!

Two books by respected authors that kind of disappointed me:

Road to Omaha by Robert Ludlum: If not written by Ludlum, this book could not have been published. It's populated by caricatures, the plot is stupid, and the fun isn't funny. I made myself finish it, but it was torture. I doubt Matt Damon will be interested in the movie.

Moviegoer by Walker Percy: I picked this up for two reasons. One, I saw on the Lost website that one of the writers had recently read it, and thought it might hold a clue to the show. None that I can see. Second, Percy was instrumental in getting A Confederacy of Dunces published. So: Of all the books I've read by respected authors, this is the one I've forgotten the most about. I find I've underlined one passage: "Tropical air has seeped into the earth and the little squares of St. Augustine grass are springy and turgid. Camphor berried pop underfoot; azaleas and Judas trees are blooming on Elysien Fields." I don't know why I underlined it, but it's very nice, isn't it? It's set around New Orleans. It's all about "the search": "what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life." But it seems to me it turned out to be pretty much about everydayness -- and the guy didn't actually go to all that many movies. Good writing, I suppose, but not a memorable story.