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1MarthaJeanne
I'm currently reading Bill Bryson's One summer : America 1927 I love it. So did my husband. We gave a copy to my mother and now my BIL is reading it. They love it. But now he has me upset. He starts chapter 28 with a list of (currently) well known authors from the 20s. I needn't copy them.
Then he mentions that Harold Bell Wright was more popular at the time than all of his first list together. 'Wright's books were sentimental and predictable ...' I don't know his work, so I continued reading. (I have since done a pile of combining on his page, but that comes from writing this message.)
'Much the same could be said of a great many authors whose names have long since slipped into obscurity. Cosmo Hamilton ... Gene Stratton-Porter ... Wait a minute. Who are you calling obscure? Freckles has been one of my favourite books for over 50 years now.
It looks like the chapter is going to be about Zane Grey and Edgar Rice Burroughs. '... both were by almost any measure pretty terrible writers.'
Rant over. I think most members of this would enjoy Bryson's book. But we needn't agree with his assesment of these authors.
ETA The chapter is getting better. He's now talking about Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry. I may have to read that.
Then he mentions that Harold Bell Wright was more popular at the time than all of his first list together. 'Wright's books were sentimental and predictable ...' I don't know his work, so I continued reading. (I have since done a pile of combining on his page, but that comes from writing this message.)
'Much the same could be said of a great many authors whose names have long since slipped into obscurity. Cosmo Hamilton ... Gene Stratton-Porter ... Wait a minute. Who are you calling obscure? Freckles has been one of my favourite books for over 50 years now.
It looks like the chapter is going to be about Zane Grey and Edgar Rice Burroughs. '... both were by almost any measure pretty terrible writers.'
Rant over. I think most members of this would enjoy Bryson's book. But we needn't agree with his assesment of these authors.
ETA The chapter is getting better. He's now talking about Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry. I may have to read that.
