What Bad Book are You?

[Paul Mackin]

On Feb 17, 2006, at 9:21 AM, Elainemmbell at aol.com wrote:

> Oh, awful!!! I lost my best friend in high school over Ayn Rand so  
> my grudge is deep and permanent (Diane became a mad objectivist and  
> couldn't "countenance" friendship any more)... I trust she came to  
> a bad end.

Is this a general type reaction--against friendships--that  
objectivism fosters?  Didn't Alan Greenspan have thousands of good  
close friends in Washington?  :-)

>
> Hey literary folk--new topic:  I've just discovered Alan  
> Hollinghurst... can anyone weigh in about his work?  Just finished  
> The Line of Beauty, and I must say "OGEE!"

Loved the book. It's stuck with me better than most novels I've read  
in recent years. The protagonist seemed to have quite a fascination  
with Margaret Thatcher. They have a dance together at a big political  
get together in the rich home where the poor hero is living. Thatcher  
comes off fairly sympathetically,  considering.  Is THAT by any  
chance a  gay thing? Like Judy Garland? But, seriously, the  book is  
first rate. As expected there's a very lot of the  homoerotic, but  
the majority of the characters are straight. The people SURROUNDING   
Thatcher don't come off at all well. _Line of Beauty_ was my first  
Hollinghurst since _Swimming Pool Library_.  Hollinghurst has turned  
into a  superb novelist IMHO.

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>
> In a message dated 2/17/2006 9:14:11 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> ghetta_outta at hotmail.com writes:
> But I was a TRULY BAD book:  Atlas Shrugged
>

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