I'm not a fan of Doctorow's other works... in particular I find his style... uncomfortable to read and his politics always seem to weasel their way into his work. I can never quite decide whether his works would be worth a second read or not. That said, please let us know if the work is worth reading.
__________________ Few take the trouble to understand or to view the American scene with perspective. And we Americans love to find ourselves guilty of something. However, it is never I who am guilty, but those other Americans, the past or present government or the other political party. Americans almost never find other countries guilty. It is always ourselves or our fancied influence in other countries. Louis L'amour
Thanks, John W., I read the article with interest. I 've been a fan of Doctorow since the 70s. Kind of laughed when he said he doesn't have a style. He does, and it's literary through and through.
Zou
GGG-child of William H. Mink, Co. D, 50th Virginia Infantry "Wilson Rifles"
Johan, just read your post, I'm not far into the novel and already some of the details are glaring at me, which would make me throw a lesser writer's book against the wall. But hey, it's Doctorow.
Thanks, John W., I read the article with interest. I 've been a fan of Doctorow since the 70s. Kind of laughed when he said he doesn't have a style. He does, and it's literary through and through.
Zou
GGG-child of William H. Mink, Co. D, 50th Virginia Infantry "Wilson Rifles"
Zou,
My gr-gr-gr-uncle Jerome Davis served in the "Bloody Half-Hundred" as well. Company I. Those boys saw some fighting.
Jerome was wounded at Chancellorsville, and then captured at Spotsylvania. He was sent to Point Lookout, and then on to luxurious accomodations at Elmira.
Regards,
John W.
__________________ Ancestors in CSA Army: 51st VA, 54th VA, 45th VA, 50th VA, 24th VA
Gotta have that fiction "fix" every once in a while.
John W.
Yes, JohnW, fiction fix. Fiction is a vacation -- no checking footnotes, no examining each phrase or word for bias, no reading and re-reading each paragraph to fully grasp its meaning -- just reading for the sound of the words and the story.
Starting "Widow of the South" tonight. I'll see if Hicks measures up to the publicity. Then on to the latest Turow, (two days each) then, fully refreshed, back to non-fiction.
I have as yet not read any novels about the war, except for "Killer Angels". I guess that was fiction, based on real events. "The March" looks pretty good just going by the review so I'll probably look for it. Newt Gingrich supposedly wrote a novel about Gettysburg. I've kind of shied away from Civil War fiction, for no good reason really. I guess there are so many non-fic books out there that I don't want to spend the time reading anything else.
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