Comments on Orion Reads: brautigan - dodge - robbins

i really tried to read a TR book a couple years ag...

2005-01-12T15:59:00.000-08:00

i really tried to read a TR book a couple years ago;
i think it may've been jitterbug perfume or maybe still life with woodpecker. i tried. but every page was the same as every other page (i tried the begining and two spots in the middle) and i couldn't bear it. so i dropped it in the bath water and threw it in the trash.

i did not like 'jitterbug perfume' and dropped it ...

2005-01-12T15:53:00.000-08:00

i did not like 'jitterbug perfume' and dropped it after the first chapter. i dont know why, but i didnt.

~mdm

no, i would never say a good book needs to romp. i...

2005-01-11T14:16:00.000-08:00

no, i would never say a good book needs to romp.
i mean i'm not against a romp if it's well-done,
but it's neither here nor there.

all three of these authors are definitely rompers tho.

but i think robbins romps in a pretty straight and uninteresting/distasteful line, dodge does it while engaged in a decent plot and uh, what, aesthetic structure, and brautigan is sort of like an electric field of romp which more or less exists in many places at once without really caring about any of them.

i'm not saying henry james is worse than these yahoos because his book plods and wears starched collars. i was just incidentally recently preferred brautigan.

(note, Trout Fishing In America is languishing unread at work, while The Turn of the Screw is on active BART duty in my backpack.)

So, then, let me see if understand: you're saying ...

2005-01-11T14:12:00.000-08:00

So, then, let me see if understand: you're saying that an important quality in a novel is that it be describable as a "romp". That what you're after?

(Of course it's not. Yet I am wounded in my reading parts by your above assessment, and must lash out blindly with poor dulled talons.)

So, then, let me see if understand: you're saying ...

2005-01-11T14:09:00.000-08:00

So, then, let me see if understand: you're saying that an important quality in a novel is that is be describable as a "romp". That what you're after?

(Of course it's not. Yet I am wounded in my reading parts by your above assessment, and must lash out blindly with poor dulled talons.)