Well I just reread Vineland and the news is still bad...

[Mark Kohut]

love that new school of lit crit.
   
  hey, the horrors of WW2 as subject raises the "status" of many writers' books. 
  Heller's Catch-22 over his others. Erich Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front
  over his others.  Death matters as theme and lotsa historic deaths matter a lot. 
   
  Shakespeare's tragedies and better historical plays are 'better' than his comedies
  because they have more gravitas.....gravity's inexplicability.
   
  Yes, TRP was on fire with GR...it is so compactedly intense......but ATD, IMHO, with 
  a myriad of flaws, tries to surround GR with a fuller vision of Life, History and Death.
   
  MK

kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
  The new Consumer Pricing School of Literary Criticism.

I agree that GR remains TRP's masterpiece, and that I was initially disappointed in ATD. This group read, so far, even though it occasionally founders, has actually helped me appreciate the book more, and I look forward to "doing" the whole book this way.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Henry Winkler 

There is no enthusiasm for AtD because it is a bad
>book. 80% off on Amazon means something when Mitch Ablom's new book is only
>40% off. That means Mitch Ablom's book is twice as good as AtD.




       
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