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2004-09-25 @ 11:23 p.m.

Made an impulse buy today at Times, Michael Cunningham's A Home At The End Of The World. Published in 1990, and now being resurrected in bookstores because it's "now a major motion picture" starring Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Pen, Dallas Roberts and Sissy Spacek. Books that have been made into movies are irritating, not because of their content (this one sounds interesting), but their covers. Take this one as an example. Colin Farrell's head occupies half the cover. The Hours, also by Michael Cunningham and a "major motion picture", has the three actresses on its cover. William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair is even better. It has Reese Witherspoon occupying the whole cover. Talk about vanity, imagine having the whole cover of a book to yourself. I think I'll read that sometime soon, because I'm starting to like this whole business of social climbing, backstabbing your way to the top. Call it life in the vicarious lane.