ejm duggan (ejmd@cwcom.net)
Thu, 30 Dec 1999 14:01:39 +0000
AnonymeInc@webtv.net
(Mark Sullivan) wrote:
>Just to clarify, A Confederacy of Dunces is a great
book, but it's not
> hardboiled, noir, a cop book or anything having to
do with this list.
> It's just the outspoken misanthropy of Filth that
reminded me of it,
and
> the fascination with digestive functions.
Thanks for the clarification.
I finished _Filth_ btw, and found it, for the most part,
delightfully disgusting ... not a book for the
squeamish.
I was a bit disappointed that Robertson's misanthropy
couldn't just
*be*, but had to be *explained*.
The ending was, of course, as it had to be; there's only one
way this kind of book can end, it's just a matter of how to
bring it off ... file near _The Killer Inside Me_ ...
> Marabou Stork Nightmare
Another Welsh?
> Speaking of dark heroin stories, one of e better
ones is Denis
Johnson's
> Jesus' Son.
Is that from the line in the Lou Reed song, 'Heroin': '... I
feel just like Jesus's son...'
ED
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