> Mark: I remember a Gold Medal novel that I read a
long, long time ago called
> LET THEM EAT BULLETS. Great title, right? I'm not
sure at this late date
> whether it was a parody or a farce.
I reread this recently -- Howard Schoenfeld is the author --
and I'm not sure I'd describe it as a parody, and definitely
not a farce. Or maybe I missed the joke. It's a fun novel,
but I'd call it fairly straightforward HB, smarter and
funnier than most, by a guy better remembered, if he's
remembered at all by anybody but me, for a very surreal 50's
sf story called "Built Up Logically," in which the main
character's profession is Birdsmith. No explaination of what
a Birdsmith does for a living is given.
More of a straight parody is Fritz Leiber's Spillane bashing
"The Night He Cried."
BobT
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