Re: Similar authors?
patrick flaherty (pfkw@email.msn.com)
Wed, 22 Jul 1998 23:14:17 -0400
-----Original Message-----
From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: Similar authors?
>
>> I don't think that it's been discussed, but if it has - forgive
>me.
>> I was browsing the Amazon site and I did a search wherein I clicked on an
>> author whose work I enjoy reading (in this case Salinger, of course) and
>it
>> brought forth additional authors I'd also supposedly enjoy. The ones
>listed
>> were Michael Chabon, Rick Moody, and Hunter S. Thompson. I don't know
>much
>> about these people. Has anyone read any of their work? Does anyone
>think
>> that they would be enjoyed by someone who enjoys Salinger? I'd be
>> interested in hearing your thoughts on this. Thanks. Bye.
>
>I for one have only heard of Hunter S. Thompson myself. As for a
>Salingerlike writer I always say Heinrich Boll, whose `14 Stories' rivals
>JD's `9 Stories' in greatness. If you ever come across it I reccommend
>`Murke's Collected Silences' and `In The Valley of the Thundering Hooves'.
>
>Camille
>verona_beach@geocities.com
>@ THE ARTS HOLE
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In light of the fact that you have "only heard of Hunter S. Thompson," I
certainly hope you read _Fear and Loathing_ before you go see your beloved
Johnny D destroy it on the screen.
Patrick