As someone who loves to read but never studied literature, this book is an nice synopsis into the major writing styles or movements that have influenced the American canon. While not a definitive list, it places each book in a historical context amid the contemporary social influences of the time...
Read literature like a Pro: A Cheat-SheetFoster comes across for the most part of the book as Captain Obvious, or rather Prof. Obvious and maybe even as Dr. Condescending, M.A., Ph.D., etc.But no matter how frustrated with the book I was at times, Foster does have a language that reminded me cons...
Its narrator is more fallible, more consistently clueless, than any narrator you’re ever likely to meet in all of fiction; at the same time he’s completely believable and therefore pathetic. He is part of a pair of couples who meet every year at a European spa. During all these years, and quite u...