"Of Human Bondage"

by W. Somerset Maugham .

This is the book sent by JD and one he highly recommends...

and funny story about trying to get a pic to upload to give you guys a point of reference... I am at work and put the title into a google image search... My company blocked it for pornographic content. Thanks a bunch JD. Kisses.

S&M implications aside, the book is fantastic. A bit more modern than Dickensian England but along the same vein with the same issues as "the Age of Innocense" and if I could be so bold... maybe "Madame Bovary" (?) What is most funny about it, is that I could not have read this when I was younger. Younger? I dare say 3 years ago, the innane lack of spine in Mr. Carey would have made me throw the book at the wall. Time makes you view things differently and create more warm and squishy empathy towards someone ill used by love or their perception of it.

360-something pages in, I know that I am going to have to start reading it again as soon as I am done. 1st time for me is basic plot- "get to the point, get to the point" but there is so much in his expression of emotion that makes you say "wow, that is what I want" and you know what sucks even more? You have it. Most of us do and we overlook it, or consciously choose the cad that will not give us money for a cab.

Ok, not a good day to blog this, my thoughts are still all over the place. Try # 3 to follow after lunch.