[ebooktalk] Re: Liking/disliking authors
- From: "Elaine Harris \(Rivendell\)" <elaineharris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:54:06 +1000
Yes, Clare, I agree; I think that what we know about an author perhaps can
and does influence us more than it should be reading, at heart, is after all
a highly subjective experience. The much-revered Malcolm Bradbury refused to
allow me to participate in his course on modern novels when I was at
university and it was only some 20 years later that I could steel myself to
read "The History Man".
Having said that, I have found some authors not wholly to my taste but
surprised myself by enjoying interviewing them, or loved a book or books but
been sadly disappointed by the author.
Take care,
Elaine
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On Behalf Of Clare Gailans
Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2013 7:05 PM
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Liking/disliking authors
June, I think it probably has more influence on my reading than it should,
but I would still read them if I enjoyed the writing. Thinking more about
Elizabeth Jane Howard, I have enjoyed interviews with her, it just seems to
be in her autobiographical writing that she comes across as so whingey. And
of course in Kingsley Amis's writing about her, which I have met in his
letters. I think she was trying particularly hard to be honest about
herself, as a good writer sometimes does, though I think not always. Clare
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From: "Tar Barrels" <tar.barrels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:15 AM
Subject: [ebooktalk] Liking/disliking authors
>I try not to let it matter to me about liking or disliking the author,
>but unfortunately sometimes my prejudices get the better of me. I
>think we already discussed this in relation to Jeffrey Archer some
>time ago. How do you feel about it, Clare? Does it make you read a book
more critically?
> June
>
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> On Behalf Of Clare Gailans
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> I have only tried to read the Maid of Buttermere, which I couldn't get
> on with, though I think it was a rather dreary Calibre reader so not a
> fair test of the book. I have always meant to return to him.
> Yes, when I hear people in rather salubrious areas whinging about
> aircraft noise, I want them to go and live somewhere like an
> inner-city estate where they would really have something to complain
> about. Elizabeth Jane Howard, in her autobiography Slipstream, says
> that she couldn't bear her house in Camden Town because of the traffic
> noise. She had previously lived in Flask Walk in Hampstead, presumably
> Millionaires' Row where nothing so vulgar as a car ever penetrated. I
> love her novels, but what a spoilt madam she seems to have been in
> life. Clare
>
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