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To: PJ-Comix
My favorite contemporary type novels are "Winter's Tale" by Mark Helprin and "Huckleberry Finn." I don't see how anyone can go through life without reading both...

My favorite literary work of all time on all levels is LOTR by Tolkien, which I read once every c. 10 years.

I Read "Go to the Widowmaker" in college (30+ years ago) and loved it, have not read Jones since, though.

Know that Hemingway is vulnerable to criticism, but love him anyway, his writing had a quality, that while perhaps easy to satirize, has never been duplicated.

129 posted on 06/26/2002 12:55:41 PM PDT by Sam Cree
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To: Sam Cree
I Read "Go to the Widowmaker" in college (30+ years ago) and loved it, have not read Jones since, though.

Try You-Know-What and The Thin Red Line. Both will ASTONISH you with the quality of the writing. Simply breathtaking. As I said, Jones based his characters on REAL PEOPLE (including himself although he denied this).

135 posted on 06/26/2002 3:17:53 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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