Indianapolis has picked "Catch Me If You Can" as its latest One Book-One City subject, which seems like a pretty lightweight choice. Here's the list of 25 finalists, which had a few that seem more likely to generate lively discussion. I would have voted for "Lonseome Dove," one of the great reads of all time, or "The Time Traveler's Wife," which is that rare novel that can really be called unique, about a woman who lives her life normally and sequentially and a man who is involuntarily yanked through time; no description of the premise can really do it justice.
Here, we've done "Farenheit 451," "The Diary of Anne Franke" and "Frankenstein," and I enjoyed re-reading the first two for the project and reading the latter for the first time. I still wish they'd do "The Magnificent Ambersons," one of the best novels set in Indiana.
(Hat tip to IndyScribe)
