Re: RARA-AVIS: intro

Zach Bender (zach_bender@juno.com)
Thu, 02 Apr 1998 10:51:58 EST On Thu, 2 Apr 1998 07:46:01 -0600 "Anthony Smith" <ansmith@netdoor.com>
writes:

>Glad to see you read _White Jazz_, . . . [b]ut what did you think?

-- I found the style offputting at first, stream of consciousness maybe,
but who actually thinks like that? Then once I got into it, I found it
only occasionally annoying (that sense you sometimes get that somehow you
know better than the writer what word should go where). Great story,
though, and I was wondering whether the other books in the series were
written in a similarly difficult style.

>when I'm old and gray, I'll figure out what the heck they meant. Though
I suspect, in Forster's case, the answer will be "Nothing."

-- As a defender of Forster, I will say that he is a little thin, but I
am supposing you might be reading the wrong stuff in a survey, usually
_Howards End_. You might try _A Room With a View_, though you need to
bring your Edwardian sense of humor with you, or _The Longest Journey_.
Woolf requires no apology at all.

zach_bender

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