Book Against God

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 11:59, Paul Mackin wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 11:20, Richard Romeo wrote:
> > a non-recommendation--
> > 
> > James Wood's novel should be called The Book Against
> > Wakefulness
> > what a snoozer
> 
> 
> I felt much the same about it. Wood better not give up his day job as a
> critic.
> 
> The novel I most recently finished is Norman Rush's Mortals. Very
> interesting  with regard to recent South African history and politics
> including a few Herero making the best of it in the Kalahari. The hero
> is a literary--a failed poet actually--American CIA agent working in
> Botswana.
> 
> Recommended.

I should have added that the CIA agent's field of expertise (in his
academic life) is Milton. He "believes" in Milton (he says) as Milton
believed in God.

P.