Art Garfunkel's Library

[Joe Allonby]

I read more than that and I have two jobs.

On Jan 24, 2008 8:44 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1023 books divided by 40 years = 25.5 books per year or 2.25 books per
> month.
>
> Not bad, really.
>
> On Jan 23, 2008 5:06 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.)
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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