>>I've kinda been in a slump for the last few
books. The last really decent
thing I read was Benedict's DOGS OF GOD, and I had already
read it before. Whoops! Shouldn't say that. Thornburg's
CUTTER AND BONE was great. <<
I started on Thornburg's BLACK ANGUS but haven't had the
chance to finish it yet -- it's terrific, if less obviously
so than CUTTER AND BONE.
>>I'm tempted to give up experimenting for a while
and go back to tried and
true. Cormac McCarthy's SUTTREE, Gores's INTERFACES and COME
MORNING, and Faulkner's LIGHT IN AUGUST have sat unread on
the shelf for a long time. <<
I finished INTERFACE a couple of months ago and it was
absolutely wonderful. It starts off running and never
relents. The plotting is fabulous, and the characters
memorable. There's a short story featuring Neal Fargo, but I
haven't found it. Anybody? I know Gores wrote a screenplay
for the novel and some sources claim there was a movie based
on it but I haven't seen any actual evidence of such.
Otherwise I've been reading LIZA CODY's short stories in the
Crippen & Landru collection LUCKY DIP and I'm loving this
stuff. I went to the library and got one of her novels,
BUCKET NUT, and halfway through that I can recommend it
without reservations. It's a lot of fun, but there's dark
stuff creeping in -- it's all handled brilliantly with a
great quirky yet real lead character, and I can't wait to
read more of her stuff. Anybody else, recommendations?
--JT.
-- JT Lindroos Wit's End Publishing www.sendwit.com
-- # Plain ASCII text only, please. Anything else won't show up. # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 20 Nov 2003 EST