Oh how I love Pat Conroy. Let me count the ways! So there's a kind of scene I like. Love. Want to crawl inside and burrow into. It's gotta have emotional intensity, it's gotta have a hint of revelation, a hint of risk, a hint of exposure. You know that line, that cliche, about heartstrings? This is nervestrings, maybe. The kind of scene I like tugs on some part of you that makes you jump like you've been zapped, a little jolt of electricity that makes you reread that line, that monologue, that word, leaning in, crowding the book in