RE: RARA-AVIS: Re: Vachss: Robison

From: GERLACH, Steve ( steve.gerlach@sma.com.au)
Date: 12 Jan 2006


Well...have you read any Dan Brown?

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Elkin [mailto: rictusaporia@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 12 January 2006 9:39 PM
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: Re: Vachss: Robison
>
> "Write about what you know," huh? And how could he
> write about what he DOESN'T know?
> (Maybe I'm overreacting, but I hate that damned
> clich鮩
> Rob
>
> --- "GERLACH, Steve" < steve.gerlach@sma.com.au> wrote:
>
> > > He's definitely victim-oriented, to a fault, but
> > > hardly strikes me as much of lefty.
> > >
> > > ***************
> > > Haha! Yup! I see Vachss's writing as solidly
> > left.
> > > It permeates it. From his rejection of core
> > family in
> > > favor of the "it takes a village to raise a child"
> > > extended family, to his worship of alternate
> > > lifestyles. Take a look at the bad guys. They
> > come
> > > in two flavors. Upper class white male
> > pedophiles,
> > > and poor white male racists. The key phrase here
> > is
> > > "white male," a long-beloved scapegoat for the
> > left.
> > >
> >
> > I'm sure Vachss is just exercising that most
> > well-known author rule: "Write
> > about what you know." I don't have any problem with
> > his leanings in his
> > novels. You know that is what you're going to get
> > when you read Vachss.
> >
> > If I read Ellroy, I don't expect Mills & Boon. If I
> > read Vachss, I don't
> > expect Bill O'Reilly.
> >
> > (Then again, no one expects Bill O'Reilly...)
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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