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Originally Posted by wayrad
How come? I'm not criticizing, just wondering if it could be because of all the similar efforts that have come since. Sort of like the first time I listened to Robert Johnson - I thought "this sounds really bland and familiar" and then realized why.  |
Well, it has been about three decades since I read a collaboration between those two writers.
What I seem to remember, at that time, was that I didn't find the humor particularly funny. However, my sense of humor - on this Board, anyway - goes toward the wild side, as I believe I've now reached an age whereby I can now discern sterile aridity of thought and staid, stodgy intellectualism -- and so many people who are wedded to the Intellectual Banking Theory of Knowledge are soooo boring. Give me "carpe diem" and "
The Dead Poet's Society" any day. Throw Foucault to his mad dogs! Bring on the zombies! is my battle cry. Tear down those precious Ivory Towers!
Now, back to "Reality": I really think I would enjoy the novels now, so I plan to go back and reread them. I think I very well might enjoy them.
Don