[Mrs. Don-o]

Forgotten? Not by me! I've read the Kristin trilogy twice, and I wish I had read it 10 years earlier when it would have given me some good sense --- oh dear, wasted youth.

I also tried the Master of Hestviken, much harder to get through. Keeping all the names and relationships srtaight required a more sophisticated technology than Index cards with tiny letters and arows :o/

The scene where Olav kills Teit the Icelander with his axe roiled through my imaginaton for a long time, though.

Yikes.

[Revolting cat!]

Forgotten? Not by me!

You know better than that. Forgotten, yes, like so many other Nobel Prize in lit winners. It's an old complaint about who still remembered should have gotten them, and who now forgotten actually got them. But it's like that society woman who said I think to William F. Buckley, (was it Pauline Kael?), that she didn't understand why Nixon was elected since no one she knew had voted for him. Our personal choices remain our personal choices. And the recent nominees such as the communists Dario Fo and Elfriede Jelinek will most certainly be soon forgotten.