literary envy

Have you ever read something so excellent that you wished you' d written it yourself? That's what I experienced when I read Ondaatje's Divisadero. Before I read it I remember hearing that he'd won the Governor General's Award for it and being kind of disappointed, thinking that they'd given it to an established author just because he'd written a new novel. Then, I read it. And let me tell you, Ondaatje didn't just write another novel. He wrote the masterwork of his career, in my opinion. He has a way of writing that is is so real that you can feel everything he tells you about - it's amazing. Read the book, friends. You won't regret it.