To: BlackIce
I wholeheartedly recommend Naipaul's writings, although you have to be an adult to appreciate them. No sugarcoated nonsense there.
(How come the left has so many novelists who can write well -- Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, ... -- but conservatives have only Naipaul and a handful of others, and worse yet, most conservatives spend their money on no-talent hacks like Tom Clancy?)
35 posted on
08/09/2002 10:12:22 AM PDT by
tictoc
To: tictoc
I wholeheartedly recommend Naipaul's writings, although you have to be an adult to appreciate them. No sugarcoated nonsense there. (How come the left has so many novelists who can write well -- Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, ... -- but conservatives have only Naipaul and a handful of others, and worse yet, most conservatives spend their money on no-talent hacks like Tom Clancy?) Good point. Maybe it's because conservatives do business, or law, or engineering instead of writing.
To: tictoc
I don't think it's that conservatives can't be writers. I think it's the other way around: the consensus "great writers" tend to be HIGHLY intellectual, and haute intellectuals tend to be leftists.
61 posted on
08/09/2002 12:32:02 PM PDT by
Illbay
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