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I agree with Mark Twain who said something to the effect that those who don't read are no better than those who cannot. I cannot remember when I didn't read. While I prefer world class literature, like the alcoholic who will drink shoe polish, I'll read anything. In one of my lives I taught college English. I have an opinion about all literature. For example, I'm convinced that Emily Dickinson is … Read moreI agree with Mark Twain who said something to the effect that those who don't read are no better than those who cannot. I cannot remember when I didn't read. While I prefer world class literature, like the alcoholic who will drink shoe polish, I'll read anything. In one of my lives I taught college English. I have an opinion about all literature. For example, I'm convinced that Emily Dickinson is America's greatest poet and that LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA is a much better novel than ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE.
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Michael George Holloway, the narrator and marketing graduate from Cal State summa cum laude, changes his name to "Scat" in order to better market himself for a marketing job. So begins this rollicking novel about the cut-throat world of business. Along the way Scat meets the beautiful 6-- her parents named her zero and changed her name every year on her birthday, but they both died just after renaming her "6"-- there's also the aptly named "Sneaky Pete" and the beautifullly blonde @. I suppose we could probably spell her name "Ambers Anne" because of her lemony looks. In keeping with the tone of this novel, the chapters are marked by bar codes; and marketing case studies are interspersed… Read more
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In REBEL YELL 2, Mr. Quinn continues what he started in his first volume REBEL YELL although the collection is bigger here with 22 writers represented, including some from the previous volume. The definition of a Southern gay writer and who therefore makes the cut seems to have gotten even milkier here with the likes of Felice Picano making an appearance. According to Mr. Quinn Mr. Picano comes from New York and now lives in California-- and I suppose he has changed planes in Atlanta if that makes him a Southern writer-- in any event, he's included. There are a lot of things Southern here-- bourbon, iced tea, pickup trucks, country music, kudzu. The quality of the stories is uneven, which… Read more
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I just saw for the first time ever this movie made in 1950; directed by Vincente Minnelli; and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett. Ms. Taylor was only 18 when she made this film and was frightening and eternally beautiful. She is so petite that she almost could adorn her own wedding cake. The movie, however, as the title implies, belongs to Mr. Tracy who plays her father who cannot bear to see his little daughter grow up and get married. There is a lot of most fathers in Mr. Tracy's character. He has some great lines and some funny scenes and endears himself to us with his gentle humor-- the footage where he gets stuck in his kitchen making drinks and doesn't get to… Read more
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