A Momentary Taste of Being

Campus best-sellers What can one say to some of these titles other than c'est dommage ça .

Again from Books Inq.--a Bestseller database. Interesting to peruse and see how many I have read and how many I've forgotten completely.  Also neat is to see some of the anomalies: Willa Cather Shadows on the Rock Joseph Conrad The Arrow of Gold --not one of his more notable books, but presence on the list at all is remarkable. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Hound of the Baskervilles-- Not really unexpected as a best seller--I just tend to forget that Holmes crept into the 20th century. Elizabeth von Arnim The Enchanted April (misfiled under Elizabeth) Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose William Faulkner The Reivers --Again, not a stand-out book by the author and, I believe, his last, but still to see Faulkner on such a list is a bit of a surprise. Ellen Glasgow Vein of Iron Hemingway hits the list five times, but Hemingway was nothing if he was not accessible by a large reading public--whether or not that public got from his books what he put into them may be debatable, but stil...