Subject: Re: Other Authors
From: alexander Lamb (sashalamb@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 18:23:13 GMT
hello,
new to the list... just an average Salinger fan. now a Eggers fan after
reading Hearbreaking work... one of the most personal works i've read in a
while... Might i also recommend Haruki Murakami. Probably my favorite
Japanese author out now.
thanks
s
>From: "Lambodara" <ganesha@rochester.rr.com>
>Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
>Subject: Other Authors
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:38:46 -0400
>
>fans of salinger (as represented on this list anyway) seem to have plenty
>of interests in the world of art (or psuedo-art) and literature, so I was
>wondering what other authors you all read. I have just finished Ahwosg by
>Dave Eggers and think that salinger fans must love this guy. here we have
>someone who looks much like salinger at the world, uses almost the same
>prose form to approach his audience, and is readily available. you can
>talk to this guy, you can see him in bookstores...he's not finding
>Forrester's "the face". how does he seem to you? what intrigues you about
>him? and by the way...why does the literary world appreciate catcher (far
>from the top of my list) and pass over franny and zooey, which may well be
>the best book I have had the pleasure of reading. if I have offended you,
>or I have identified myself as a phoney, then turn me off and forget my
>mail, which shall go past you as innocuous and undoubtedly forgettable,
>which it is. but you know...i have read the bhagavad gita in Sanskrit, i
>have translated it, i have read 23 translations of it, and I think salinger
>is the only one who got the point. that means something in my book.
>that's my disconnected statement for the day,
>so long
>Stephen J Brown
>
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