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I decided to read this book because of her reputation as a "Great Wit". I have discovered through her writing that she obviously suffered from depression and drank an awful lot. I can't stop reading this book. Although I have found most of her stories quite depressing, her dialog and characters I can't seem to resist. |
in my local library. without luck. i did find Westward, Ha! by S.J. Perelman (another "great wit"). right now, i'm in the middle of The Last Picture Show, by Larry McMurtry. in all the years i've lived in texas, this is the first time i've picked up a Larry McMurtry book. i was inspired to do so because i found out that a relative of mine had been a school teacher in Archer City, Texas at about the same time Larry McMurtry was in high school there. the novel is a fictionalized account of Archer City. it was about the time i got to the chapter with the gang rape of a cow by a bunch of high school kids, that i thought: damn. |
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read it; but i wasn't moved by it. then again, i don't think anything can move me anymore. the best parts of the book, for me, were about ruth, sam the lion, and lois farrow. without them, the story of the teenagers would have been more like "fast times at ridgemont high." i'll have to see the movie some time. |
The last half was much better. |
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I made a big mistake last Friday. I asked for them to give her a telephone. She called me five times on Saturday. |
handy source of books by, a woman who was known as "the dorothy parker of crime fiction." it was one of those google chain discoveries: i was looking up the actress nina foch, who was once married to james lipton (the actor's studio guy) whose father was beat poet lawrence poet who had been married to craig rice. craig rice turned out to be gnome de plume of Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig. she wrote a lot of mystery novels back in the 40s and 50s that were a combination of hard-boiled crime and screwball comedy. sounded like fun. |