Mark said :
. Wasp Factory's copyright is 1984; And the
> Ass Saw the Angel's is 1989.
Oops, wrong again. At any rate, I don't think the
similarities are close enough to warrant any sort of
accusations & I believe Cave when he says he hadn't read
the book at that time - although he has admitted some
similarities to "The Wasp Factory" so he's obviously at least
aware of it now if he hasn't actually read it.
> I've also got two unread Leonard Cohen books on
those shelves,
Beautiful
> Losers and The Favorite Game. Neither looks very
hardboiled, though.
No, I wouldn't think they would be either.I was just using
Cohen as an example of a singer with literary talent.
>
> Other published rock singers -- Jim Carroll
(Basketball Diaries,
Forced
> Entries and award winning poetry, although little of
his rock is that
> good), Richard Hell (Go Now, a not bad junkie
novel).
>
I think I qualified my statement/s with something like "that
I'm aware of", so I don't claim to have read everything
written by a rock/pop singer (& no offence intended to
anyone but why would you?) but however many of them there are
I'm sure they are a very few - even scarcer than rock singers
who can act.And now I'm as off-topic as you can get so I'll
just stop there.
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