October, 1997

Book of the month


"The Red Badge of Courage"
by Stephen Crane

This was an interesting find. I remember the movie starring Richard Thomas (John-Boy Walton) with a blood-stained bandage on his head. While reading this book, I imagined him as "the youth."

Once I got started, I couldn't put it down, so to speak. When I got to chapter 7, I immediately noticed having read that chapter before. The links were correct, and the filename was right, but it had been overwritten with chapter 6. I didn't want to skip a chapter so emailed the webmaster to inform him or her of the problem.

My read was not delayed for long. I got a reply within a few hours, saying that it may take a week but it would get fixed. The next day, however, I decided to check it anyway and to my surprise it was fixed. What service!

And an excellent book. It moves well, a real page-turner.

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