NP - Jesus' Son

[Dave Monroe]

On Dec 7, 2007 11:56 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
 http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200712/vietnam
>
> When a novel's first words are "Last night at 3:00 a.m. President
> Kennedy had been killed," and the rest of it evinces no more feel for
> the English language and often a good deal less, and America's most
> revered living writer touts "prose of amazing power and stylishness"
> on the back cover, and reviewers agree that whatever may be wrong with
> the book, there's no faulting its finely crafted sentences—when I see
> all this, I begin to smell a rat. Nothing sinister, mind you. It's
> just that once we Americans have ushered a writer into the
> contemporary pantheon, we will lie to ourselves to keep him there.

I liked the film okay ...