...of the narrative and selected extracts wehn necessary is the slacker way, not The Ariane Way. - I either want to get a copy of  Northanger Abbey (the aforementioned Austen-love and general Gothery should have clued you in on this) or the first volume of The Umbrella Academy with my birthday money. Maybe I'll splurge on both. Although... - I bought a book of some Kafka stories a while...