Salman Rushdie

[Mark Thibodeau]

The good thing about Gatsby is you can read it in like two evenings, if
you've got that kind of time to spare.

A great double-feature partner for Gatsby is Day of the Locusts, in case
you missed that one, too!

Jerky

PS - other great lit double-features (in my opinion):

Confederacy of Dunces / The Moviegoer (and not just because Percy rescued
CoD from oblivion)

Death in Venice / Hunger (Hamsun)

The Elementary Particles (Houellebecq) / Against Nature (Huysmans)

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Satanic Verses is another of those books I had yet to read. So glad I did!
> Next is Gatsby. (I know, almost shameful). I'm determined to get to
> Finnegan's Wake this year, too.
>
> When the Mad Duck thing came up, I was resistant, cuz I have these huge
> stacks of unread books, great books(!), including lots of Faulkner,
> Smilla's Snow, Delillo, Capote, Orphan Master, Naked and Dead, (and I've
> already read M&D twice), but after about two pages, I was marveling yet
> again at the wizardry of our resident anti-saint, Mr. P.
>
> Quack on...
>
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I used to see him waiting for publishing folks on the ground floor of
>> the Flatiron Building where I worked. He was without Secret Service
>> but not yet "out". Then, years later when he was touring on his own
>> again, he filled the 4th floor upstairs of the Union Square B &N...(he
>> phoned this talk in that night, I have to say)..I watched the
>> autograph line for awhile, it was dwindling down...and I moseyed down
>> those three long, long escalators and walked outside, turned right and
>> almost bumped into him catching up with Pashma (?) on the sidewalk.,
>> just another couple in Union Square. Like a time-slip, strange,  but
>> he had obviously come down a service elevator and come out a back
>> door. it was not long before they parted as a couple.
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Funny, my brother says his favorite is Shalimar. I'm looking forward to
>> all of it.
>> >
>> > Happy New Year to all. I'm fortunate to be associated with a crew as
>> sick as ya'll!
>> > (Yes, I said ya'll. At least I didn't say "all a ya'll ").
>> >
>> > Love always,
>> >
>> > Bob
>> >
>> >
>> > Www.innergroovemusic.com
>> >
>> >> On Jan 11, 2015, at 6:30 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Omg - yes!  Imo,  that's his best best work.  "Midnight's Children" is
>> close,  but it's kind of harder in ways.  That said,  it won the Man Booker
>> (1981),  the Booker of Bookers (1993), and the Best of the Bookers (2008).
>> >>
>> >> The Moor's Last Sigh" was good,  but "Fury," "Shame," and "The Ground
>> Beneath Her Feet," were stupid. "Shalimar the Clown" was okay.  I rather
>> enjoyed "The Enchantress of Florence," although I am likely a minority.
>> Never read Grimus - the only novel by Rushdie I haven't read.  His
>> biography is pretty interesting although in places it sounds like a tribute
>> to those who helped him in the fatwa and a trashing of those who didn't.
>> >>
>> >> Bek
>> >> babbling
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> On Jan 11, 2015, at 2:58 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Just finished reading The Satanic Verses. What a killer book! ;-)
>> Look forward to more Rushdie.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Www.innergroovemusic.com-
>> >>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>> >>
>> > -
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