To: AreaMan
Displaying much grandiosity and pride, they wrote in their notes. Very impressed with self. Eventually he fell silent. Four weeks later he emerged, shaky, fragile and subdued. Listen, Truman, he told Truman Capote. Its the most terrible, glum place you can conceivably imagine. Its really really, really grim...." We really, really need a second volume of Paul Johnson's The Intellectuals.
Stephen King says he cannot remember writing Cujo, he was so loaded;
I can believe that. Reading Cujo is like listening to a drunk in a bar telling a seemingly endless (literally) shaggy-dog story. It's overwritten by at least half its length.
6 posted on
07/29/2009 8:06:13 AM PDT by
denydenydeny
("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
To: denydenydeny
You wrote:
“We really, really need a second volume of Paul Johnson’s The Intellectuals.”
Yes, we do!!! I’ll get working on that right now. Where’s my scotch?
To: denydenydeny
Oh brother. This is one of those rare threads that to respond at all would require a good sized thesis. Not today, thanks.
12 posted on
07/29/2009 8:23:12 AM PDT by
lafroste
(gravity is not a force. See my profile to read my novel absolutely free (I know, beyond shameless))
To: denydenydeny
Can’t stand King...he writes for 12 year olds.
15 posted on
07/29/2009 8:36:25 AM PDT by
kjo
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