We all need to answer

[Michel]

Yesterday evening I started David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of 
Jacob de Zoet and was so disgusted with the first chapter that I skipped 
its second part and continued with Chapter 2. Sissy me!

Michel.

Op 11-11-2015 17:19, Mark Kohut schreef:
> parks has been very interesting as he works out his full experience of
> reading and critically. I have been strongly against
> some aspects of his generalizing, yet find other aspects illuminating.
>
> yes to what Monte asks. I was going to ask the plist to riff on
> 'plot-driven' vs. not but Parks goes there too. (ever since I
> started trying to read 'the best that has been thought and
> said'--Arnold and then (too) much avant fiction when young,
> plot can hardly hold me. Language, prose riffs, insight and
> complexification of notions and perspectives.
>
> We can start by discussing Parks here. From our coigns of vantage.
>
> First: What does he WANT, that is, think makes the best fiction?
> Realism, even dense realism, seems not to do it
> and too much effort on the page doesn't do it. I wonder what he thinks
> of GR, for example, about which we will all
> remember all those readers then and later--vidal, say--who said it
> showed off its own prose...as he says of Neumann.
>
> anyway, talk amongst yourselves.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And to ask:
>>
>> http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/nov/10/how-could-you-like-that-book/
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