| The Writer's Life |
| "On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.'' English author and critic Virginia Woolf |
| What you should have read in High School and College! (minimal) Ernest Hemingway everything, but especially:The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls and of course his short stories which include A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. Graham Greene almost everything, but especially: The Quiet American, The End of the Affair, Travels with My Aunt, The Honorary Consul . (Yes, I do know about his 'liberal' leanings but he was still a great writer.) The Bronte Sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and - okay, okay - even Anne) Thomas Hardy is good, but only inTess of the d'Ubervilles. Well, that's my opinion. Jane Austen - everything! Jane Austen for the Masses! Hey, men do read this stuff. Shakespeare one mustn't forget, lest the gaol keeper cometh to smite one . . .hmm? Of course Plato/Socrates et al, et cetera . . . Of course there are so many writers through the ages who inspire and entertain: Thoreau, Poe, de Toqueville, Byron, The Prophet Isaiah, John Steinbeck, Winston Churchill, William Faulkner, Pearl Buck, George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Romain Rolland, Rudyard Kipling You see, the list just goes on and on. But let's get serious here, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou? Only if you're trying to pass a freshman composition or women's studies course and the instructor is a femi-nazi! |
The Perfect O-beck Won A Treatise on Lips Hey, read 'em if ya want. |
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