Re: Teddy: an abstract
Jake McHenry (seymour@ktis.net)
Wed, 26 May 1999 13:02:10 -0500
I used to rank Cat's Cradle and Illusions right up there in my list of
favorites. Perhaps I still do but I am just not that jazzed up by them much
anymore. I re-read Illusions a few months ago and wondered about myself when
I would pass copies of it out like a bad rash to everyone I could find.
Cat's Cradle is still my favorite Vonnegut for sentimental reasons but
Breakfast of Champions is far better. It just seems that Illusions is just
some odd form of literary pornography. There IS some point to it but the
story and subsequent dialogue is sort of flaky at best. (Not to say there is
anything really wrong with flaky, mind you.) But the idea behind the story
is, to lift a phrase from Dylan Thomas, a real whopper.
Lately I have been reading Harry Crews and his "Childhood" is one of the
most perfect books I have read in quite some time. John Kennedy Toole's
Confederacy of Dunces is a real favorite. Irving's Cider House Rules was a
good one I read lately. (None of these are to be considered my all-time
favorites but they still just might be if I thought about it more.)
I will secure copies of the other books you mentioned as I have never read
them.
Solid handshakes,
-Jake
-----Original Message-----
From: Thor Cameron <my_colours@hotmail.com>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: Teddy: an abstract
>
>>my_colours@hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>><< I don't believe Valentine Michael Smith from Stranger in a Strange
land,
>> either, yet it's one of my favourite five books. >>
>>
>>Oh, what a great book! What are the other four?
>>-MW
>>
>In no particular order:
>
>Razor's Edge by W Sommerset Maugm
>Ragtime by E L Doctorow
>Ilusions by Richard Bach
>Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
>
>Thor
>
>
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