brief blurbs on 4 JCO books I've enjoyed (NP)

[Cometman]

she's frickin awesome -- I haven't read a bad book by her.  I find that
her ability to crank up the old page-turner tractor beam is quite more
than adequate; and I think the symbolic structure that she builds (or,
in the shorter words that I really think in - "the things in the book
that make you go "hmmmm"") is original and quite wonderful, different
every time, and I'm relatively sure her works have unplumbed
depths...get these little quivers of aesthetic appreciation reading her

them is pretty postmodern, I thought

"Mysteries of Winterthurn" is her doing a psychological detective/conan
doyle turn in fruity 19th century language, 
and i thought it was quite savory

Broke Heart Blues was, again, tasty...

Foxfire might be my favorite; they screwed with it heavily to make a
movie with Angelina Jolie, but couldn't ruin it completely...



--- David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm thinking of reading JC Oates for the first time.  Any opinions
> out
> there about her?   What's her best work?
> 
> David Morris
> 
> On 10/3/07, Werner Presber <wernerpresber at yahoo.de> wrote:
> >
> >  Nobel odds
> >
> > Joyce Carol Oates 10/1
> >
> 


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