I also find it funny that you have One of Ours so low — to me it really seems like it hinges on the fact that you were semi-spoiled with that book, that is, since you knew the subject as “young man goes off to war” all this stuff happened that felt like leaden foreshadowing to you, whereas I didn’t have that expectation that the war experience was the point of the book, and so the plot felt a lot more open and flexible to me. I think it’s a flawed book, but I’d have to put her above Bromfield — way above — on pure style. Lewis and Tarkington are both better writers than Bromfield. Does quality of sentence and paragraph count for nothing, missus? What is the world coming to, if so? Hrumph.