Literary novels, it seems, take on the underclass, the problems of the

[WCGreen]

working stiffs, the ordinary made extraordinary in the eyes of the reader and the writer...

And so-called popular novels seem to examine the rich and mighty and make the extraordinary look as if they belong on the Springer show...

All I am saying is a well written book depends as much on the stories plausibility, at least to me, as the nifty plot turns or romanticized characters...

Post Modernism and the ironic insistence that a book needs no plot, just a string of events, is prevalent in both popular and literary novels...

I always wanted to be a writer...

To do this, I was told, you should write and read as much as you can...

I have and I do...

But I think when push comes to shove, the characters, the story and the setting all matter...

The really good books I have read over the last four years have all of those elements...

The decent books had one or two elements and the down right awful novels had nothing...

So are the musings of a tax preparer too burned out on shifting through people's financial situations to sleep...