so... who got The Kindly Ones yesterday... hmm?

[Mark Kohut]

Korda's published by the same company....



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----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: so... who got The Kindly Ones yesterday... hmm?


> ...read both reviews, I think MK of the Times makes a better case than
> MK of the Daily Beast...
> 
> but I'm not drawn to that kind of lit anyway.  Didn't like Blood
> Meridian either, didn't finish it, can't imagine even starting Bienv.
> 1000 pages about Nazis...fugdatshit...
> 
> (but enough curmudgeonly muttering)

Korda must own stock in the company.

I'm going to puruse the book as a curiosity, expecting to learn as much about Littell's pyche as anything else.

At least the book's based on a true story as they say.

P


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> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:27 PM, David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 (16:44:30 -0500), Hall (hl1313 at comcast.net) wrote:
>> 
>>> There was a good review by Michael Korda on The Daily Beast blog on Feb 25.
>> 
>> Here's a link to that review: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-02-25/a-brilliant-holocaust-novel/
>> 
>> And to the review that Korda pans: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/books/24kaku.html
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