I have two degrees and my last job was putting inserts in newspapers.

I have to admit this one's a beauty.

Signed by whom, JFK?

You poor innocent.

Can't a comedy be a masterpiece?  Tootsie is one of the best movies I've seen, and if it's not a masterpiece, what would you call it?

Eh.  I used to work with a young woman who had a live-in boyfriend.  Then her mother moved in with them, and next thing, the young woman and her child had to move out, mama was screwing and eventually married the boyfriend, and a good time was had by all those of us who got to watch it happen and comment pungently.
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There's a BBC version of The Way We Live Now that I watched very recently.  Really good.  David Suchet (Poirot) is the lead (I'm pisspoor on remembering names, sadly for an English major), but the cast overall is excellent.  The guy who looks like Danny Aiello plays the Jewish banker.
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Bucky Calloway, Gramps.

That's the reaction Twain wanted you to have re Tom Sawyer.  Twain was no fan of Romanticism in literature, and the beginning and ending of Huck Finn, the parts with Tom Sawyer, are meant to be frilly bookends to the grittier middle section that's all about Huck learning about how to be a man, so to speak.
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The Peter Beagle Unicorn?

Freaky Deaky.

One of my all-time favorites.  Also writes as Patrick Ruell.
Have you tried the Joe Sixsmith novels yet?  I haven't read the last one.

You have to be more specific about your likes/dislikes.  There are too many possibilities otherwise.

The Rose Tattoo, maybe.

There's wasting time, and wasting time.  We all need blank time to let our minds run free, even if we're playing WOW or whatever at the time.

Read any Trollope lately?

King Lear is kind of a primer for what it's like when parents have to move in with their kids.
Has any British monarch abdicated in favor of his child since Lear was written?  Aside from a desire to marry an unsuitable woman, I mean.

I liked Atwood's Alias Grace, and have never been able to convince anyone else to read it.
I suggest Feather Crowns by Bobbi Ann Mason, who also wrote In Country.

Persuasion is my favorite as well.  It's also the first of her novels I read.
The BBC version of it—if it was BBC, with Rupert Penry-Jones—was unbelievably dreary.  Anthony Head was the only actor who seemed familiar enough with the work to understand that it's a comedy.