A Sentimental Journey

I must say Laurence Sterne would have to be one of the strangest writers ever. Look at Tristram Shandy - a very, very weird book, and yet so fascinating. This is the same kind of thing - a journey across Europe, where he focuses not on cathedrals but minor incidents such as a girl and a goat. Strange, strange, but wonderful. The little descriptions - like the memorable starling in the cage scene - are fantastic. Very bawdy though, can't believe it's referred to in a Jane Austen novel!