Re: RARA-AVIS: Street 8

From: Anthony Dauer ( anthony.dauer@erols.com)
Date: 19 Apr 2000


To be a "masterpiece" at least literally requires public acclamation ... doesn't mean the work isn't good, but if it's not popular it cannot by definition be a "masterpiece" ... bummer as that is. :)

abc@wt.net wrote:

> I wish I could, as Paul suggests, give a succinct reason why STREET 8 is
> a masterpiece, but I can't. I just know that I read it when it came out
> in paper many years ago and was struck by the quality of both the writing
> and the plotting. And any book I can remember for that long is bound to
> be worth reading, right?

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Anthony Dauer Alexandria, Virginia
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