> jack bludis wrote:
> > Miker--
> >
> > Winnie the Pooh . . .
> > This was what the highbrows were reading as
kids
> > before Harry Potter was available.
> > My kids, not quite highbrows, but big
readers,
> > grew up with the Cat in the Hat.
> > And I, not really a highbrow, have read
just
> > about everybody on the list.
> >
>
**************************************************** well,
you're a writer, jack, so you gotta read all that stuff even
if you aren't "highbrow". ;-) i went back over the list to
refresh my memory on why i said that. a few of the authors
that fit the bill for me:
1. james joyce
comment: i read _portrait_, but
_ulysses_ leaves me saying, "huh?" 2. kafka
comment: i've read him. existentially dark.
is it being or nothingness?
in my existential period, i preferred the
more adolescent novels of hemann
hesse. 3. camus
comment: see kafka. 4. marcel
proust
comment: never read him. read about
him. sounds highbrow to me. 5. marquez
comment: i've read parts of _love in
the time of cholera_. maybe he's
just long-winded and dull, instead of
highbrow.
written with a smile, miker
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