Updike, eh?

[malignd at aol.com]

<<the epitome of the New Yorker-type fiction set; if u like that stuff

doesn't float my boat>>

I'm no big fan either.  However, he is formidably smart and an 
excellent critic.

-----Original Message-----
From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: John Carvill <JCarvill at algsoftware.com>
Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 10:16:51 -0400
Subject: Re: Updike, eh?

   the epitome of the New Yorker-type fiction set; if u like that stuff
  
 doesn't float my boat
  
 give me the sickly haunted melville anytime
  
 rich

 
  On 10/5/05, John Carvill <JCarvill at algsoftware.com> wrote: What do 
p-listers think of Updike?  I enjoyed the Rabbit books, but have
never been able to finish any others of his. 'Memories of the Ford
Administration' in particular I remember as pretty boring...


> the list is, er, interesting:
> http://www.nobelpreisboerse.de/stocks.aspx?stc=4
> includes Franzen, Palahniuk, DeLillo, Updike, Roth, Atwood,
Houellebecq
>&c. - not in that order, natch.





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