book rec?/ if you enjoyed P, try these /++

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Dave Monroe wrote:

> See what I mean?  Jeez, who even (here or otherwise) has read, say, Pearl S.
> Buck, Rudyard Kipling ("I don't know, I've never kippled ...") or Upton Sinclair
> of late? 

Pearl S. Buck is certainly an interesting and extreme example of the
difference  between then and now Nobel-wise. Back in the 30s everyone who
read read Buck. Best seller stuff. (Even made a movie out of "The Good
Earth"  which might well have won an Oscar--dunno really). Sinclair and
Kipling in his day were also pop authors.  Don't know if it was more a
matter of pop authors getting Nobels or pop fiction being just better back
then.



			P.