antw. Re: w.a.s.t.e. recommendations

[Marcelo Ketelhuth]

You're welcome. In my opinion, "Gould's Book of Fish" is also a very entertaining book, one of the best I've read in years. Maybe it's the "clarity" you've noticed. Flanagan writes directly about madness and cruelty, and the surrealistic pieces are constructed using honest techniques. You can dislike the mystical approach which guides some passages (Flanagan certainly worked on some budism reading), but I think he's writing as he feels and that's a thing to consider.
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  From: Elainemmbell at aol.com 
  To: mhyk at terra.com.br ; lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de ; pynchon-l at waste.org 
  Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 4:03 PM
  Subject: Re: antw. Re: w.a.s.t.e. recommendations


  In a message dated 3/21/2003 1:51:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, mhyk at terra.com.br writes:


    Gould's Book of Fish - Richard Flanagan




  This is a perfect example of what I was telling J. (who had asked for suggestions):  either this writer or someone else earlier in the winter suggested the Flanagan book. It happened I was looking for something new so I quickly got it and was truly impressed by the find!  The structure of the novel, the startling clarity of the imagery, even the niceties of the publication quality put the book into the highest class of fiction by my standards.  Thanks!
  Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
  (860) 523-9225 
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