another reason to dislike Banville

[jd]

I think that perhaps in the long run you will be correct, but in the
short term he seems to be enjoying a fame on the level of Murakami
(I'm not so sure I see later generations dropping Murakami off the map
though.

On 8/18/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I've read 'Water Music' and found it entertaining and funny in some places,
> and very useful in terms of building a vocabulary of obscure and rare words
> (acromegalic, hyetologist, styptic). Still T.C. Boyle, in my view, is a
> minor satellite in the universe of contemporary American literature.
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> >  The only author I've seen whose
> >head is possibly further up their own ass than Banville's is would be
> >TC Boyle, though he made up for it by being polite at least (and from
> >what I've read generally a bit more interesting).
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