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It was the pristine reputation of "A Simple Heart", the opening story, that led me to this book, and that story did not disappoint. Exquisitely tender and beautiful. Really curious now about how the others could compare.

So this thing is 700 pages of very small type, and I'm only here because some of my favorite authors have praised Rabelais to the skies. I'm enjoying the silliness, the satire, and the earthly delights, but it's a big world with plenty to read, so I'm planning to read the first two books of the five in here and call it a day.

After 20 years, it finally felt like the right time to get around to this '90s classic. I've never known anything, really, about marketing, but I find the practice of "branding" abhorrent, and 10 years of social media has only seen the phenomenon spread from amoral corporations to, sadly, "like"-and-follower-hungry individuals. I'm looking forward to this critical exploration of the phenom.