another reason to dislike Banville

[Steven]

	Water Music was pretty inspired but he peaked with his next: Budding  
Prospects.  I can't help but think that P. read and enjoyed it, sort  
of a precurssor to some of the Vineland novel.

	Steve


On Aug 18, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Ya Sam 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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