Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Shame the Devil/Sacred Cows

From: Thomas Bauduret ( suspiria@club-internet.fr)
Date: 11 Mar 2002


> Hemingway? I've read him, and to this day I can't grasp why people rank
> him among the 20th century's literary heavyweights. Reminds me of how
> everyone always gushes over David Mamet's wonderful dialogue-- which has
> always, always sounded canned to me. Some of these icons are, IMHO,
> latter day cases of the emperor's new clothes.

Actually I think the same. And what about some critics gushing over Abel Ferrara's pseudo-intellectual stuff ? I thought that, after ten years of movies, he'd have overcome his Christian guilt and not paint it all over the place ! :)

 To pick a genre I'm a
> little more familiar with, science fiction, can anyone think of a more
> flatulent icon than _Dune_?

Yep ! got one ! Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Forgotten Shore" (I think ?)

Okay, let's go back to talk about what we enjoy !!!!

T.

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