tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34218279.post5542123922856229367..comments2024-03-29T07:14:38.160-04:00Comments on Dystel & Goderich Literary Management: Your favorite writers get snarky at each other!DGLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03594925221862242748noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34218279.post-8459378663218425582010-04-21T15:13:29.658-04:002010-04-21T15:13:29.658-04:00Twain was certainly snarky wasn't he? He showe...Twain was certainly snarky wasn't he? He showed up several times on the list.CoachMThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11169823418924096379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34218279.post-10221877848061132622010-04-20T22:55:27.216-04:002010-04-20T22:55:27.216-04:00I'm a Hemingway fan (except for the bulls), so...I'm a Hemingway fan (except for the bulls), so I was amused by Nabokov saying, "I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it." Then I saw that Papa H criticized Faulkner for drinking (projection?) and suggested that James Jones kill himself (horrible foreshadowing?).Jenniferhttp://acanofcornorsomething.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34218279.post-58301996261644421642010-04-20T19:26:58.509-04:002010-04-20T19:26:58.509-04:00*continued*continuedAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02658823127238398358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34218279.post-88262369071976146232010-04-20T19:22:48.291-04:002010-04-20T19:22:48.291-04:00It makes me wonder why Twain apparently continue ...It makes me wonder why Twain apparently continue to revisit a novel he so disliked.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02658823127238398358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34218279.post-81614082461762968952010-04-20T18:48:11.567-04:002010-04-20T18:48:11.567-04:00These are great-- thanks for linking!These are great-- thanks for linking!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34218279.post-20082854107748332872010-04-20T18:40:52.976-04:002010-04-20T18:40:52.976-04:00I thought Noel Coward's comment about Oscar Wi...I thought Noel Coward's comment about Oscar Wilde was funny. Sounds like he was tweeting, too!<br /><br />"Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod."Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18196910463213330227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34218279.post-6650179296456074712010-04-20T17:48:47.774-04:002010-04-20T17:48:47.774-04:00I love #10, Noel Coward's put-down of Oscar Wi...I love #10, Noel Coward's put-down of Oscar Wilde. Simple and to the point, and the lack of flowery description or waxing on about why Wilde sucks makes it all the more humorous.<br />(Not that I necessarily agree with his opinion, of course.)Kristin Laughtinhttp://kristinlaughtin.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34218279.post-6528924534450271712010-04-20T16:45:10.558-04:002010-04-20T16:45:10.558-04:00I guess Twain's a hack and Austen needs a whac...I guess Twain's a hack and Austen needs a whack.Joanne Brothwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11277805693436251841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34218279.post-2732411639005817182010-04-20T14:27:01.263-04:002010-04-20T14:27:01.263-04:00This one makes me giggle: I can't read ten pag...This one makes me giggle: I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.*Jen*https://www.blogger.com/profile/07084331817864134701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34218279.post-90785025212921932722010-04-20T14:22:31.030-04:002010-04-20T14:22:31.030-04:00Gotta love it when Mark Twain is called a hack - t...Gotta love it when Mark Twain is called a hack - thanks for a fun read!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05255908019822363456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34218279.post-37059323591432866742010-04-20T14:10:04.421-04:002010-04-20T14:10:04.421-04:00Gotta love #30. "Not much of Dickens will li...Gotta love #30. "Not much of Dickens will live, because it has so little correspondence to life..." Really? How many plot variations have been done of The Christmas Carol?NinaPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14673997575080486274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34218279.post-15265211799944571522010-04-20T13:41:50.874-04:002010-04-20T13:41:50.874-04:00What Truman Capote said about Jack Kerouac's w...What Truman Capote said about Jack Kerouac's work: "That's not writing, it's typing."MaryWitzlhttp://witzl.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34218279.post-76579601507210144972010-04-20T13:37:36.589-04:002010-04-20T13:37:36.589-04:00I posted this one on my FB fan page yesterday! Gre...I posted this one on my FB fan page yesterday! Great stuff. My favorite is "I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up." LOLElizabeth Flora Rosshttp://thewriterrevived.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com