a. n. smith said:
> And for marketing, commercialism, reminds me of
something my boss always
> says, him being one of the minimalist writers from
the eighties, when he
> used brand-names in fiction. The criticism was that
it dates the work, it
> intrudes, it takes you out of the story, blah
blah.
And then there's King Suckerman, where the product placement
is intended to evoke the glamorous seventies--as I was
reading the first few chapters I checked the copyright date
on the book to see if it really was a period piece, but as I
kept reading the 70's details seemed more forced than natural
(and I found it a little hard to believe that with all the
characters so involved with music no one had to wince at the
KA-CHUNK! when the 8-track changed tracks in the middle of a
song).
Anyone out there with a better memory of the 70s than I: did
King Suckerman ring true?
-----Diane Trap
trap@mail.libs.uga.edu
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