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RARA-AVIS: Group Reading
On Thu, 8 May 1997, michael david sharp <msharp@umich.edu> wrote:
[SNIP]
>Maybe we could decide, collectively, to read some work (a story, novel)
>and then discuss it w/ one another here on the list.
I heartily support this proposal.
It might even make me read some of the stuff in that stack that's not so
much a 'to be read pile' but a 'really ought to be read if there weren't so
much dust on it and I had the time to get down to some serious skimming
pile'
"Richard L. King" <rlking@marsh.vinu.edu> suggested
> Perhaps we could set a date that a story or novel must be read by, say
one a month for starters?
[SNIP]
>Maybe we could start with Chandler's "Red Wind,"
I think that a short story a month is far from arduous (it might even be
*too light* a load?).
But it's a good suggestion, which I think is both <easily> do-able and fun.
"Red Wind" seems as good a place to start as any.
"Richard L. King" <rlking@marsh.vinu.edu> also wrote:
>maybe the list manager could draw up a list (maybe from the Hard
>Boiled List from the web page, eh?) and run it past us for comments
Hmmm dunno about that ...
Not that I have any concerns about Bill's tastes, but it might be better if
the proposals were generated by list members?
I'm willing to go along with Richard's suggestion, if other readers <and
Bill> are agreeable though.
It would be good to see a few proposals for a bunch of stories from others
<I'll try to come up with one later>
so that we can see what's ahead. Maybe a 10-month reading programme?
I'd like to see a balance between old boiled and neo boiled or, if there is
an 'unbalance' then skewing that in favour of the old school (6:4)
Maybe we could work through selections from an already existing anthology?
Would Adrian & Pronzini,.eds's, *Hard Boiled* be a good one to use?
(though it lacks "Red Wind")
OK, time to go to work ...
Eddie Duggan
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