Crawfish Tails
Michael Kuettner wrote:
> Kathleen wrote:
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>>Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq. wrote:
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>>>I didn't think much of Walton's "The Complete Angler" or "Zen and the
>>>Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." And Kerouacks "On the Road" was only
>>>slightly better.
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>>I didn't like any of the above, although I was told that I was supposed
>>to.
>>I read through Hemmingway's stuff by the time I was 10 - it was in the
>>living room bookcase. At that point, nobody had told me what ultimately
>>became of the man. Based on his writing alone, I thought that there was
>>something seriously wrong with him. I was right. Don't even get me
>>started on Salinger...
>>
>>I am an insatiable, omnivorous reader. Put it in ink, leave it where I
>>can reach it and it will get read. But I always wonder why some things
>>wind up deemed "classics", how they end up as required reading in high
>>school or college? Who decides these things?
>>
>>Personally, I would get naked for Mark Twain or Terry Pratchett
>>(assuming the one wasn't dead and the other afflicted with rapid onset
>>Alzheimer's).
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> Then you'd also might like to try Tom Sharpe and Douglas Adams.
Been there, done that.
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