Re: Teddy: an abstract
Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Wed, 26 May 1999 15:17:12 -0700 (PDT)
I'm off to the bookstore, thanx for the suggestions.
Illusions is sentimental for me, I know if I read it today for the first
time, I'd not love it as I do.
Cat's Cradle because I'm a card-carrying Bokononist
B of C? Come on, it's good, but not that good. If not for Cat's Cradle,
Sirens of Titan would be his best. Breakfast.. only makes sense if you're a
Vonnegut reader and know the characters,
Much like the rubbish with which Salinger begins Seymoure...
It's only tolerated, palatable to the Salinger reader.
Namaste,
Thor
>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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