Re: the Jerry & Ernie show
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:36:32 +1100
Now, that's hardly giving credit. Is that to say `Oh, all those teenagers
and bourgeoise philistines who liked Catcher wouldn't have even *read*
Flaubert to know whether he's a section man or not'?
man or notis my all time favourite Nine Story, and it doesn't matter
whether or not I know the artists to which Salinger refers (as it happens I
do but it makes no difference). Hemingway is one of my least favourite
writers, simply because I don't like his style or his topics. Couldn't care
less whether they're set in Tuscany or Toronto. I don't know much about the
workings of Irish hospitality but I liked `Dubliners'. Hemingway simply
doesn't interest me. I prefer Scott Fitzgerald any day.
Anyone else in to bat for D-D Smith?
> He's a little too travelled, too international for the young
> Salinger fan (which accounts for the unpopularity of "D-D
> Smith"). All those remote locations and frosty summits and
> empty cafes and rues and bull fights and spanish bus rides can
> discourage even the hardiest American teenager. What is one
> to do when confronted with such a curious mixture of ordinary,
> monosyllabic English words and impossible foreign place names
> and idioms and drinking practices?
Camille
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