I loved Banville's novels about Copernicus and Kepler. They weren't difficult the way Pynchon can be, but they were challenging, in the way that Philip Roth is. Definitely not The Old Man and the Sea or To Kill a Mockingbird.
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I think she's hot, hot, hot and that gives her vagina tattoo bonus points. The cat-nose-and-whiskers, though, makes me wonder. That doesn't seem like a smart tattoo at all.

-- Rear Admiral