I finished _H is for Hawk_ last week. Good stuff, but I admit feeling pain over the way TH White's skin is flayed out for all the world to see. I'd rather think of him as an ignorant would-be falconer, guided by an ancient book that told him nothing about how to achieve a responsive hawk. (_The Goshawk_ is depressing -- it's about everything a falconer should
not do -- but he does succeed in the end, so there's hope.) I'm less interested in his sadism or pedophilia or the gyrating frustration White may have felt in not being able to express both and still be a decent person in his mind.
BTW, is this appropriate for Hacker News?