I just finished Maugham's Of Human Bondage. False advertising, let me tell you. It was, however, a MOST INTERESTING novel, and I want more than anything to have a good talk about it. But I've asked nearly everyone I know, and no one's read Maugham. Until I asked my superior International Playgirl, who has a writer for a husband, I couldn't even pronounce his name correctly. (It's pronounced "Mawm" apparently.) In desperation, I actually read Gore Vidal's foreward wherein he revealed a.) Maugham was gay and b.) Vidal himself is an ass.

No one can say to me anymore, "But Jean Luc, you think everyone is gay," until everyone stops turning up gay.

Love that dare not speak its name (LTDNSIN) aside, it was a wonderful book, and I have no clue why! Why have a foreward if not to explain what I should think? I'm going to Wikipedia.