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

[David Morris]

Thanks for the advice.  I've just ordered "Them" and "Foxfire."
Looking forward to both.

On other reading fronts, right now I'm in the middle of "Lucky Jim" by
Kingsly Amis.  Very funny skewering of 50's British Academia.  And
I've ordered Martin Amis' "The Information" because his name keeps
turning up around here, and Michiko Kakutani gave it a glowing
review...

David Morris

On 10/4/07, Cometman <cometman_98 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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...