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Post by --Ed. on Jul 26, 2008 20:07:09 GMT -5
Anybody ever read this guy? I just finished "White Noise" and thought it was pretty good. A meditation on death as brought by toxic fallout. Really quite funny. The Dylar angle jived well with Spencer Dew's recent story.
I have "Underworld" sitting around, but it's so massive, I'm intimidated.
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Post by ylarivera on Jul 27, 2008 8:45:35 GMT -5
i picked up Libra at a thrift store, but have yet to start it. I finished The Knockout Artist by Harry Crews on Thursday. Fucking awesome. I picked up Feast of Snakes by him and U.S.A. trilogy by Dos Passos, which I read is awesome and 'postmodern.' I also picked up James Dickey's Deliverance, which I'm looking foward to reading. I feel this summer has been the summer I've read the most in my life. Before classes start I'm gonna put a blurb about each book I've read this summer. I've been planing it for the past few weeks.
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Post by --Ed. on Jul 27, 2008 8:51:09 GMT -5
One of my teachers from college told a story about Harry Crews and how he came to do a reading there, except he disappeared right after the reading was done and showed up a few days later looking for his check with two black eyes.
Deliverance is good for some laughs, too.
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Post by ylarivera on Jul 27, 2008 9:55:46 GMT -5
harry crews was the director of the creative writing department in UF in the 80's, before David Leavitt. He has a reputation for being a psycho drunk. a buddy of mine and his friends occasionally go to his house (he lives in Gainesville) and clean up for him. i don't think they've done it in a while. they told me he wasn't drinking anymore. i wanted to meet him, but that buddy of mine is a selfish hipster who wants to be the only one who knows harry crews or something. i've heard his number is in the phone book, so if he doesn't die in the next year and a half, i might come up with the courage to give him a call. i seriously admire his writing.
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Post by baumerworld on Jul 27, 2008 18:36:07 GMT -5
I read white noise, but can't remember a whole lot about it except one of the professors being into obscure video clips before youtube era. i read some other book, americana by him. I liked the beginning a lot, but can't really remember why. i feel it was like bright lights, big city, but better. I don't know for some reason they both seem very similar to me.
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Post by drscannell on Jul 28, 2008 7:37:10 GMT -5
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Post by --Ed. on Jul 28, 2008 19:04:24 GMT -5
He must have a thing for Hitler. The narrator of "White Noise" is the chair of the Hitler Studies program at his local college.
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Post by jakemooney on Aug 7, 2008 21:48:45 GMT -5
Did he do "Falling Man"? I read Falling Man. I liked chunks of it.
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Post by aids69 on Aug 7, 2008 23:24:51 GMT -5
great jones street, delillo's 3rd, is not good.
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