Art Garfunkel's Library

[page at quesnelbc.com]

Perhaps, what Art meant by fraudulent was that he was defrauded by the
bookseller.  The dealer may have described it to Art as good book, say,
"The Flounder," and when he got home, Art opened a sick book about
erections and rockets. A book short on fish. Be wary of books without
covers.

No offense to anyone here who works with books for a living.


1023 seems like a short list since 1968 for a sporadically employed
> singer/actor  with a lot of time on his hands.
>
> On Jan 22, 2008 4:06 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Everyone's entitled to their opinions, especially in this era of
>> blogs.  So I won't succumb to the temptation to snark about HIS
>> relative talent in music, because it's irrelevant.  And if Joe-Schmoe
>> can have a blog abou literature, then I guess Art's entitled.
>>
>> But does he know what postmodern fiction is?  He includes Catch-22 on
>> his list.  That is at least a bit post-modern?   And what about
>> Portnoy's Complaint?
>>
>> His favorites list contains some fluff, but again, he's entitled.
>>
>> And what the hell does he mean when he calls GR "fraudulent."  I
>> suspect he just couldn't follow it, so he feels obliged to denigrate
>> it.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Jan 22, 2008 1:29 PM, Ian (Hank Kimble) Scuffling
>> <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > From the New Yorker,
>> > http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/01/28/080128ta_talk_paumgarten
>> > "I avoid fluff," Garfunkel explained last week, on the phone from a
>>  Marriott in Florida. "The stuff that men are always reading on planes:
>> I
>> don't read that." He also doesn't read postmodern fiction—the Garfunkel
>> Library contains no Pynchon or Barthelme. "I tried 'Gravity's Rainbow,'
>> and
>> I thought it was fraudulent," he said.
>> >
>> > "I read for the reading pleasure, not for the gold star," he went on.
>> "Reading is a way to take downtime and make it stimulating. If you're in
>> the
>> waiting room of a dentist's office and don't want to twiddle your
>> thumbs,
>> you turn to Tolstoy." ("Tolstoy is the king of writing," he said.)
>>
>>
>