Kathleen wrote:
> Michael Kuettner wrote:
>
>> Kathleen wrote:
>>
>>> Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq. wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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).
>>
>>
>> Then you'd also might like to try Tom Sharpe and Douglas Adams.
>
> Been there, done that.

Robert Rankin ?

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner