Not hard core?!!! I started reading it last night and I have to say ....the first 20 pages and I don't understand a single word of what I'm reading. Yet. I have confidence that come Monday I will have conquered this alien format. (i survived invisble monsters afterall) And then I will have the profound satisfaction of having stepped outside the narrow boundaries of my limited existence. Mary...by starting this bookblog you have become the instrument of my self actualization. I bow before you in gratitude.