pinging Gore Vidal....
I read prolifically. I read and read and read and read. I am of the type that will finish any book that I pick up, even if I hate it, because by golly, I started it and I will finish it. My best freind has told me repeatedly to just drip books I’m not enjoying as life is too short...and one, she is right and I should, but two, I have only encountered a very few books that became almost intolerable. So after this unending screed, I must say that I have only in my entire life just plain given up on two books. One of them was given to me to enlighten me, and it was written by Gore Vidal...it made me physically ill, and now that you know my tolerance for bad writing, it should tell you how horrific this man’s ideas truly are