Whatever Gets You Through the Night

[Elaine M.M. Bell]

*And if there's anyone out there who has not read (or heard Codrescu read)
his chilling treatment of the Elizabeth Bathory story, The Blood Countess,
do yourself a favor in the Transylva**nian gloom of Nov**ember and  enjoy
what I promise will be a memorable literary experience.*

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> I'm reading Andrei Codrescu's reworking of the1001 Arabian nights,
> Whatever Gets You Through the Night. It really is a delightful read with a
> treasury of  em bed ed post'modern commentary.  Sexy, funny, with a hidden
> dagger and the  soul stirring energy of a  poetic tender hearted wise-ass
> invading the deep mythos.   This is the first non-Pynchon fiction that I
> have read in years that I think would be widely enjoyed by the list as a
> group read.  Hoping someone will try it and render a second opinion. Is
> there a doctor in the house?
>
> Tom Robbins said, Like a supercomputer concealed inside an exotic
> aphrodisiac fruit, Codrescu's retelling of this ancient bawdy wonderwork
> ends up by surprisingly calculating the future of our race.
>
> OK , Robbins probably had smoked some strong stuff before writing that,
> and I am only a third in, but this is indeed some good shit.




-- 
Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
860.833.2625
Have Laptop/Will Travel
(but wicked good to be back in Massachusetts)
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