RE: jack kerouac/terrible drafts

Sean Draine (seandr@Exchange.Microsoft.com)
Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:13:51 -0700 

Oh come on, Tom Wolfe ain't that bad. Has anyone ever read "The Painted
Word"? It's a funny, insightful, highly cynical portrait of the modern
art/architecture world.

-----Original Message-----
From: Thor Cameron [mailto:my_colours@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 8:48 AM
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
Subject: Re: jack kerouac/terrible drafts



Yeah, Hated Bonfire of the Vanities.  He's the Pat Boone of social protest.
Thor



>Well, he may be :)  We are talking the same Tom Wolfe, right?  Bonfire of
>the Vanities?
>
>Thanks for the title, I'll hunt it down sometime.  I know reading ONE
>book by any author is a bit unfair so far as forming some kind of opinion
>of them...
>
>Jim Rovira
>Check out "Up Against the Wall" for links to numerous
>literature and writing resources on the internet.
>http://members.aol.com/antiutopia/main.htm
>
>On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:25:39 -0700 (PDT) Thor Cameron
><my_colours@hotmail.com> writes:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Gawd I wish I could share anyone's enthusiasm for Hunter S. Thompson.
> > I
> >>admit I've only read...eh...the Las Vegas thing.  What was it?  Fear
> >and
> >>Loathing in Las Vegas.  There you go.
> >
> >Try Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail.  Great stuff.  I love
> >Thompson
> >because he reminds me, in a very in-your-face way, not to trust the
> >illusions that others set up around me.  Pynchon does this in a more
> >high-brow way, as does Rand, but it's important to me to remember to
> >question everything, & HST does it in a most audacious way.
> >I'm sorry, can't hang with Wolfe.  It seem to me the only thing he's
> >saying
> >is: "I'm Tomas Wolfe.  Shut up and get me a double martini."
> >He's just WAY to in love with himself.
> >
> >Thor
> >
> >
> >
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