Re: best buys
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:25:07 -0600 (MDT)
If you are referring to hem's "moveable feast"as"the Paris book" then I
have to agree with these preferences...I like Hem's short stories best and
return to a few of them in my classes, but doubt any of his novels will
find my re-reading eyes...will
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Scottie Bowman wrote:
>
> `...The short stories, the Paris book, the first two novels,
> parts of the Africa and Death books...'
>
> How rare & what a pleasure it is to find oneself in complete
> agreement over a choice of books. There are bits of the others
> - For Whom the Bell Tolls, even Across the River... - which I would
> add on purely sentimental grounds (where I was, WHO I was when
> I read them & so on.) But when in due course Tim joins me in the old
> folk's home there will be no discord as we pass our favourites from
> one wheelchair to the other.
>
> Scottie B.
>