[ebooktalk] Re: Liking/disliking authors
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:45:41 +0100
Why did Bradbury refuse you entry elaine? And examples please of authors who
both deliighted and disappointed.
On 13 Jun 2013, at 13:54, Elaine Harris (Rivendell) wrote:
> 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".
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> 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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> 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
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>> 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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>> -----Original Message-----
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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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