Finished: Gargantua and Pantagruel (Rabelais). A farcical book about benevolent father and son giants and their adventures is just not my cup of tea. I know the "masterpiece" is full of satire, double entendres, and scathing nonsensical commentary about everything from morals, to society, to religion, to lawyers, to sex...but I just don't enjoy books written in that manner. Much the same way I really didn't enjoy two other heavily lauded books, Gulliver's Travels and Tristam Shandy. It could be that I'm just not deep enough to understand all the implications. :-) I'd rather just read a good story! One thing about this book DOES fascinate me, however, and that is the fact that it was written in the 1400's and so many of the ideas still apply to today. That's pretty cool or pretty sad, however you want to look at it. Anyway...so glad to be done with this literal behemoth of a book.