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To: squarebarb
right now I am catching up on American classics. I'm reading An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser.

Has anyone here read Riddley Walker? I was entranced by it for a long time.
172 posted on 04/04/2004 8:27:00 PM PDT by squarebarb ("I done told you twicest now God damit, know!' N.B. Forrest to a young lietenant's second request .)
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To: squarebarb
Riddley Walker is an amazing tour de force.

As the definitive post-apocalyptic novel it beats Earth Abides by ten lengths and going away . . . because it doesn't abandon the spiritual aspect of the narrator's (and man's) situation.

Also, given the current occupant of the seat of the Ardship of Cambry, it has given me the opportunity to say a lot of ugly things about Rowan the Archdruid and the Litl Shining Man the Adam . . . . :-D

178 posted on 04/04/2004 8:50:20 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of Venery (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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