T.C. Boyle

[Richard Romeo]

Boyle is competent, IMHO, but his work is like that record you really like 
but seems too glossy and overproduced.

Rich


>From: lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de (Lorentzen / Nicklaus)
>To: christinekaratnytsky at juno.com
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: T.C. Boyle
>Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 16:05:24 +0200
>
>chris schrieb:
> > (I) recently enjoyed World's End very much
>
>
>  While reading I somehow enjoyed it too. Afterwards I felt, well, "empty". 
>  All
>  motifs were played through & there was no poetic substance left. The book
>  started so promising, but in the end I felt cheated for my invested
>  imagination. It's all method. No real juice. Same with "Buddening 
>Prospects"
>  (?), the other book of Boyle I read. Would never read these books a 
>second
>  time. Got similar problems with the novels of Joerg Fauser and of Ian 
>McEwan (-
>  read recently "Amsterdam", which was - in the backlook - a complete waste 
>of
>  time).
>
>  Best, Kai (- who does not want to spoil your party)
>

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