Nobel Consideration (was Re: Ideal and idealistic)

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< Americans John Updike, Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, and Joyce Carol Oates 
as well as Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru, Mexico's Carlos Fuentes, Guenter Grass 
of Germany and Belgian Hugo Claus, have all been mentioned as possible 
winners.>>

I, from what I've seen, think he's a wonderful and, in Mexico, important man, 
 but Carlos Fuentes is not a good writer.  Try, anyone, to get through The 
Old Gringo, which stars, no less, Pancho Villa and Ambroise Bierce (!) and is 
less than two hundred pages (of the most tedious prose imaginable).  You fuck 
that up, you're off the list.