nemesis wrote:
 > it's a good book.
 >

Perhaps, and I do have a lot in common with what I know of the main 
character - though I dropped out a LOT further than he did. I enjoyed 
that time in my life, but I feel kind of "been there, done that" about 
the whole thing.

I imagine this book is very popular with the sexually obsessed - those 
who view adolescence as the greatest time in life because adolescence is 
the most sexually focused. These are the same people who look down their 
noses at Houston because the sexual opportunities here (for affluent, 
Caucasian liberals) are not as obvious or frequent as those in "cooler" 
cities. I believe this is the type who choose "The Classics."

Similarly, I was at my niece's 13th b-day party recently and saw that my 
niece and her friends were listening to the Violent Femmes, a band who 
put out ONE album in the early 80s and have been milking it ever since. 
Reasonably catchy music, but the only reason it's survived to this day 
is that, in 1983, kids like myself were titillated by the word "fu**" in 
the band's most popular song - a "Classic" was born.

  -Shay

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