Re: 37 Across


"REG" <Richergar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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That's really fascinating. Beowulf is on in THREE versions - do you think
that's the influence of the movie, or do you think this is just about high
school and college reading lists? There are a lot of things I would never
think of as being on such a list>

There's a movie?
ljo


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"REG" <Richergar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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She's apparently a pretty interesting lady - she was a research
assistant for Truman Capote at the time he was doing "In Cold Blood".
She is, I think, pretty modest about what she did, and has that block
that a lot of novelists get about having a huge best seller first time
out and then being almost unable to risk another try. Apparently lives
very modestly. I suspect the designation from the Library Journal comes
from the fact that the novel is on virtually every high school reading
list, and maybe some colleges, I don't know. I never read it myself.


I wrote hastily - didn't mean to be so dismissive of her. I did read the
book when it was first published and thought it very fine. I think I was
just teasing Frank because he typoed "best novelist" instead of "best
novel". Incidentally, once a week or so I check Project Gutenberg to see
what books people are reported to be reading on PG's top 100. You'd be
amazed at the list. Number 1 is The Outline of Science, Vol. 1, by J.
Arthur Thomson. Beowulf is both No. 7, No. 40 and No. 100 (?). The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is No. 28, and No 30 is Ulysses by Joyce.
Go figure. Little Black Sambo recently dropped off the list, and there
isn't a single book about music in the lot.
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
ljo


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"F R" <esponda2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Reafforest"? Pretty esoteric, huh? Did >you get the opera one?
ljo

i got the "forest" part and yes, the opera one i got, duh... that was
6
down.
they had harper lee as the author of the best 20th century novelist,
not
james joyce.


The opera one, "Licia", was 4 down and "reafforest" was 6 down. And,
not best novelist of the century. Author of the best novel. They are
not the same thing necessarily. She was a one-shot wonder. Would
anybody claim that Lee was a better novelist than Kurt Vonnegut? Or
Norman Mailer? Or Thomas Wolfe? Or even Tom Wolfe? etal etal etal, let
alone James Joyce. That opinion on Lee was from a Library Journal poll.
I'm quite sure I've never seen a librarian even reading a book. Maybe
Marian read one, but I wasn't there. Those polls are goofy if you ask
me.

ljo









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