tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post8073580804356892112..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: A Challenge - "Who Do You Think Is The Greatest American Writer If It's Not Twain?"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-19801177274765653032017-01-07T21:44:29.076-05:002017-01-07T21:44:29.076-05:00You couldn't put your price low enough to be w...You couldn't put your price low enough to be worth it. Not even if you used the most devalued currency in the world to set it. I'd make a joke about your setting that in Dongs but that would only encourage you to expose your inner 12-year-old. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-92133173964413794272017-01-07T19:16:52.271-05:002017-01-07T19:16:52.271-05:00"Update Four: Simps, when I can hire a copy ..."Update Four: Simps, when I can hire a copy editor you'll be last on the list."<br /><br />You couldn't afford me.<br />steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-75407607270176970742017-01-07T18:45:24.628-05:002017-01-07T18:45:24.628-05:00"If Borroughs hadn't murdered his wife he..."If Borroughs hadn't murdered his wife he'd probably have never had a "literary" career...It wasn't his writing ability that made his career as he had none.<br /><br />Steely Dan, who will be remembered centuries from now after you are worm fodder, beg to differ. Also -- learn to spell Burroughs' name.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-17987164135598761682017-01-07T16:49:10.737-05:002017-01-07T16:49:10.737-05:00Wow -- you just spelled William Burroughs' nam...Wow -- you just spelled William Burroughs' name incorrectly three time in three separate paragraphs.<br /><br />I don't think we can chalk that up to typos, Sparkles.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-5622506267565845252017-01-07T15:01:03.794-05:002017-01-07T15:01:03.794-05:00When I'm this miserable with a cold I get real...When I'm this miserable with a cold I get really ornery. <br /><br />I did ask my niece who her favorite writer was, she said, these days, it's Nabokov, she's read everything he wrote. Her favorite of his is Pale Fire WITH THE FOOTNOTES. A lot of people leave those out, she said. She said that who her favorite is changes. She's 23 and has read more than most people three times her age.The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-45901349005147505932017-01-07T15:00:08.317-05:002017-01-07T15:00:08.317-05:00Oh, and the scenes in Lila where she is waiting fo...Oh, and the scenes in Lila where she is waiting for the birth of her child gave me insight into something I couldn't possibly know or could have imagined considering before. I've read the Gilead books several times, they are some of the best novels I know. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-13222098226809913072017-01-07T14:47:49.044-05:002017-01-07T14:47:49.044-05:00My answer to the challenge would be: "Who ca...My answer to the challenge would be: "Who cares?" Deciding who is the "best ever" is a mug's game. Children play it, not serious readers. I like lots of writers for lots of different reasons.<br /><br />Why should I decide which among them was "the best"? What's the point?<br /><br />Though I'm gonna have to read the novels you mentioned. Like I say, I like a lot of different writers.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-7146122891765980462017-01-07T13:57:53.454-05:002017-01-07T13:57:53.454-05:00"I find the huge corpus of lit'rature put..."I find the huge corpus of lit'rature put into the mind and words of imaginary boys to have gotten really stale and old"<br /><br />You're so right, Sparkles. The only thing worse then the countless books about straight white men are the counteless about straight white boys. Except the gay ones.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-71831544166957227022017-01-07T13:51:00.056-05:002017-01-07T13:51:00.056-05:00"I do have to say that I find the huge corpus...<br /><br />"I do have to say that I find the huge corpus of lit'rature put into the<br />mind and words of imaginary boys to have gotten really stale and old"<br /><br />This is why novels told from the canine perspective are now all the rage.<br />http://www.barnesandnoble.com/...<br /><br />I must say, however, that I always dug that Lasse Hallström directed the film version of MY LIFE AS A DOG. For obvious reasons.<br />steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-20901799888997849002017-01-07T13:21:21.280-05:002017-01-07T13:21:21.280-05:00"I think William Boroughs or Henry Miller mig..."I think William Boroughs or Henry Miller might be the worst of those<br />[American writers] presented as distinguished or significant but if I haven't read enough<br />to know who the best is, the contenders for worst are so many that I<br />suspect I don't event know who that actual worst one might be."<br /><br />Here's a clue Sparky -- it's you. Oh wait -- only you think you're distinguished or significant. I regret the error.<br /><br />Incidentally, American literature begins with NAKED LUNCH.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.com