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That long? I heard something with him around 2001 about being an elf and he left no impact, so I therefore never felt the need to look into him further. While I do understand he has a large gay following it is not solely that, like say a Quentin Crisp, otherwise he wouldn’t be selling...

moreso to be listed under "I tried reading"... David Sedaris 'Dress your Family in bla bla...' From time to time, in my virtual conversations regarding books, some people express curiosity that not only am I not a fan of David Sedaris, but that I haven’t read (or heard much of) him. Well...

Here’s a few links for Slavin, the first being a story that is in the aforementioned collection. The second, a press release for the collection and lastly, an interview. http://www.crescentreview.org/Stories/vol14no2/dentaphilia.html http://www.crescentreview.org/Info/slavinpr.html...

If you want the celebrity bashing stuff check out: _If You’re Talking To Me Your Career Must Be In Trouble_ _The Unkindest Cut: How A Hatchet-Man Critic Made His Own $7,000 Movie And Put It All On His Credit Card_ _Confessions Of A Cineplex Heckler_ _My Goodness: A Cynic's Short-Lived...

Wilson's been known for her articles where she's not afraid (why anyone _would_ be is beyond me) to heavily criticize, if not outright make fun of, celebrities. So this gained her some sort of 'cult status'. [Joe Queenan is wayyyyy funnier if one likes that sort of thing] This is her...

Just saw that buried in the New York Times...sadly this will be covered over with all the godamn propaganda STILL going on days later...apparently a religious whacko dies and the world stops spinning...

Excellent pick! Feel free to post your thoughts, questions, comments on the Murakami thread after you're done. Still toying with the Slavin short stories (quite cool) and started a re-read of Chandler's _The Big Sleep_ last night... j

My vote goes to “most people don’t know HOW to talk in-depth or analyze”. And quite generally those that prefer, well, really poor books, either “love it!!!” or “hate it”. And those poor books, shall we sayyyyy _The da Vinci Code_ are probably easier to point of the bad parts than the...

Yes, his earlier novels are *far* better than the newer lot. Nowadays he admittedly wants to be a "modern day Dickens", which I'm not terribly sure what that means. Essentially he should just try to write well, but I think he's, at times, shooting for the moon and trying to reach a mass...

Not at all. Don’t worry about it. TC Boyle, in my opinion, *was* a great short story writer. His newer shorts are…ok, but his older stuff (_Greasy Lake_, _If the River Was Whisky_, Without a Hero_, _Decent of Man_), essentially up to/around the time many of those were collected in...

Nothing personal, and clearly I'm in the minority here. Clint Eastwood is a great "director"; Tom Hanks is a great "actor"; Stephen King is a great "writer"; U2 are great "musicians". This is the world as we know it. Mediocrity is the norm. Some of us just get a bit sad when it's celebrated.

You want contemporary writers? (just to name a few that come to mind) Haruki Murakami Jose Saramago Amy Hempel Ann Beattie Joy Williams Anne Carson A.M. Homes T.C. Boyle Clive Clevenger William Christopher Baer Etc etc etc To each their own, I still *harshly* disagree. Any and...

Indeed, indeed. But generally the smell of rancid eggs compared to, say, a blindingly green, crispy salad is pretty apparent. (glancing at your profile) you’re on the right track. ;) I assure you, your non-patronage (if you wind up so) of S. King will not leave him left eating, say...

Worse ways to pass the time? Well, maybe next time. Keep in mind there are tons of better books and better writers out there. Food for thought: “What he [Stephen King] is is an immensely inadequate writer on a sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-by-paragraph, book-by-book basis.” -Harold...

Going back a few weeks here, but: Yes, I guess you are correct. I finally pulled my copy down and flipped through it. For some strange reason(s) I very much recall that it seemed more of a mystery woman…but indeed the hairclip and the, um, usage of her name indicates that it was Naoko...

You are correct, sir. Damn, damn fine book. Hmmmmm, are you so much of an Updike fan that you are crediting him with writing some of John Irving’s books??? ;) But yes, early. If you meant Irving, it’s his second novel. If you meant Updike, you must have a special non-published...

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Sorry, I was momentarily channeling Shaggy, which I usually only do when I sport a green t-shirt, but things have been strange lately… or it may be closer to what you suggested, but Daffy Duck in “The Scarlet Pumpernickel”. For S I nominate a William Faulkner trifecta: Sartoris, Colonel...

Zoiks! It's a weird, whacky world when Quartermain comes into my head before The Don... Panza would be a "P" though... Did we get an "R" yet? I didn't want to hog two in a row...

Q uartermain, Allan (_King Solomon’s Mines_) – H. Rider Haggard