13 hours listening to Toni Morrison

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Oooooh . . . Thanks for reminding me. I've really got to read more Ishmal Reed, "Mumbo Jumbo" is wonderful, dazzling and just "difficult" enough to pass muster. It's great fun, that's for sure.
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From: terrance fitzgerald <fitzgerald_terrance at yahoo.com>
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> --- bekah wrote:
> 
> > I'd replace Roth with Morrison. Or at least I'd
> > add her. She gets put down because she's black
> > and female so there's a fear that to admire her
> > work is to fall for some PC crap....
> 
>   She gets put down? By whom? I think she won the Nobel. She certainly deserved 
> to win it. And she has won here way into evey classroom and onto every syllabus 
> in the Nation. She's the best writer in these United States. 
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>   What I can't figure out, though, and perhaps you can help me with this, is why 
> Beloved was voted the best novel of the last 25 years. Why is this book the one 
> that gets all the critics and book clubs so excited? Song of Solomon blows it 
> out of the water. Beloved is not even a novel. It has flashes of greatness, but 
> it's simply a modernized slave narrative. Hell, Ishmael Reed done been there and 
> done that a hole lot better (Flight to Canada, 1976).. The ghost-girl doesn't 
> work at all. The celebrated mid-wife scene, where the white girl saves the black 
> woman and her unborn child is the stuff that bad "made for TV movies" are made 
> of. And, and this must be said, even if Toni ain't no Alice Walker, where are 
> the real men in this book? The book spends too much time behind the Princeton 
> podium given lectures at the reader. Also, not sure if the sex up the stair is a 
> parody of gettin one's groove back  (Terry McMillan & C0.), but it better be 
> something like that. 
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