Light On Dark Water

At Mere Comments (the Touchstone magazine blog): Top Twenty Books Nobody Reads and Top Ten Bad Books Everybody Reads. The first should more accurately be called "Top Twenty Good (Or At Least Highly Spoken-of) Books Nobody Reads."

I can't really comment much on the first list, because I have, in fact, not read most of them. I was just talking about Undset's Master of Hestviken with someone the other day: I read Kristen Lavransdatter (a very great book) twenty-plus years ago, and bought a copy of Master around the same time. I put it aside until the day when I might have the leisure to give such a huge book its proper attention. That day still hasn't arrived.

I have, however, read Mauriac's Viper's Tangle, and strongly recommend it. It's apropos to the discussion we were having here the other day about offering one's suffering to God on behalf of another. One such offering is crucial to this story, but I can't say any more without giving too much away for those who haven't read it.

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