> Hemingway? I've read him, and to this day I can't
grasp why people rank
> him among the 20th century's literary heavyweights.
Reminds me of how
> everyone always gushes over David Mamet's wonderful
dialogue-- which has
> always, always sounded canned to me. Some of these
icons are, IMHO,
> latter day cases of the emperor's new
clothes.
Actually I think the same. And what about some critics
gushing over Abel Ferrara's pseudo-intellectual stuff ? I
thought that, after ten years of movies, he'd have overcome
his Christian guilt and not paint it all over the place !
:)
To pick a genre I'm a
> little more familiar with, science fiction, can
anyone think of a more
> flatulent icon than _Dune_?
Yep ! got one ! Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Forgotten Shore"
(I think ?)
Okay, let's go back to talk about what we enjoy !!!!
T.
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