And now I want to read it. Too much going on, reading other things, probably won't get to it. I'm sort of curious, now, though, to see if I have the same reaction to it, the weird aversion that you can't quite put your finger on. Are there other examples of books you can think of from that period that effect you the same way? I can't think of anything in particular I've read from then, but chances are if I felt like that it wouldn't be something I'd read but something I'd started to read.