RARA-AVIS: Re: Fast One

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--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Mark D. Nevins" <nevins_mark@...> wrote:
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> Mingus Mark,
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> I read SEVEN SLAYERS last year. I really liked it, but it's so lean
and taut that bits of it almost read like some sort of Gertrude Stein prose poem (and I mean that in a good way).
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> SEVEN SLAYERS is, for me, one where style truly wins out over
narrative. I have not yet read FAST ONE; how story-driven is it?
>

Over the years Paul Cain has become indigestible to me. My last attempt to reread Fast One was a failure: and there is no masking sauce you can pour on indigestible reading to make it go down.

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