--- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
>
>
> I think the first chapter of Delillo's _Underworld_
> is, word for word,
> probably better writing than anything Salinger ever
> penned. But I don't
> know how to even begin to argue for that. On what
> basis can you really
> establish a comparison? And do the MFA's, then, on
> the lists I provided
> earlier really not compare that well to Salinger (on
> a purely literary
> basis, excluding nods to how much an author has
> influenced readers)?
> Have you read them all as much as you've read
> Salinger?
>
given that i have read every word salinger has
published, i can easily say i haven't read all of the
authors on your list as much. :)
i agree that 'gravity's rainbow' dwarfs 'catcher'; i
haven't read 'underworld' but will put it on my 'to
read' list. thanks.
kim
>
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