another reason to dislike Banville

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< 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. >>

I liked Budding Prospects as well.  I like Boyle generally; he makes me 
laugh.  but I think of him first as a comic story writer, not a novelist.

<<Still T.C. Boyle, in my view, is a minor satellite in the universe of 
contemporary American literature.>>

Minor, but perhaps lasting.  Like Perelman or Ring Lardner.