Ishmael Reed [was Re: The future of the list?]

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

vaska at geocities.com writes:
> Andrew Dinn:
> >Was not impressed by Reed's later works but this one is equally as
> >brilliant as `Mumbo-Jumbo' (qv). 

> You don't like his _Flight to Canada_?  Still think it's his best to date.  

Not read that one. I was referring to his terrible pair and that
japanese by lunchtime affair, on reading which, if I had not read
Mumbo-Jumbo, I would have presumed that Mr Reed's namecheck in GR was
utterly undeserved. As it is I regard him as an absolute must-read.


Andrew Dinn
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