You get demands for large amounts of money, weighty reading lists arrive and your parents appear to be eyeing up your bedroom for other uses.
If you are the type of person who doesn't like books that announce they're weighty, then read this one; you'll like it.
The book has the heft of bullion, too: at seven pounds, it is too heavy to hold in a single hand, and too weighty to read unless rested on a lap or table.
In the end the Lutosławskis' weightier reading is perhaps the more satisfying, but the Silesians' version is highly persuasive too, and it is good to hear these works interpreted differently.
And don't worry too much if it's taking you a while to read this weighty book.
FANS of the mixed economy would do well to read the weighty report on Crédit Lyonnais issued by a French parliamentary commission on July 12th.
Viewers interested in the labyrinthine mysteries of Chinese art history might like to read the weighty catalog, or attend a free, two-day symposium on Han culture, art and architecture at the museum in April.
You get home, bursting with anticipation, and sit down to listen to the first half-dozen songs of a beloved artist's recording career, and to read the weighty accompanying essay, and then, somewhere along the line, a vague disappointment kicks in.
Either that or the books most Brazilians read must be weighty tomes like "Remembrance of Things Past".John KehoeTecumseh, Canada.
If you read only serious and weighty books, give yourself a break and pick this up.
