The time has finally come for me to read Revolutionary Road

Three years ago, I read The Collected Short Stories Of Richard Yates. And I really liked it. And then I got a copy of Revolutionary Road--his novel about the slow decay of a suburban marriage. And I opened it, read the first two paragraphs, and said to myself, "Not yet."

Ever since then, I've periodically harkened back to that book and opened it and read…