I loved the first Shell Scott I read, "tomatoes" and all, but the second
was full of calling "communist" at newspapers and colleges, very
antiquated and nasty. So the rest of the Shell Scotts are on the bottom
of the pile. The nonseries Prather I read was kind of blah. Your
endorsement makes me think I should rethink; maybe I just ran into the
worst of the lot.
I won't repeat yet again my dislike of John D.
Joy, currently reading Brookmyre
jacquesdebierue wrote:
> Just a personal observation from recent rereading of both: Richard Prather holds up much better than John D. In fact, Prather remains hugely entertaining and seems (obviously?) a much better stylist than John D. Sure, he calls girls tomatoes (or rather, Shell Scott does), but even that fits in with the current era, where certain stupid practices of political correctness are de facto being abandoned by young people.
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