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From: Edie_Ching at cathedral.org <Edie_Ching>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:13:56 -0500
I think you might be judging the man too harshly. I heard him do a reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. and then answer questions. He was polite, a bit self effacing and his responses were thoughtful. He seemed very respectful of his audience, even faced with some off the wall comments. Why not give him the benefit of the doubt? My guess is that he is a bit overwhelmed by all of this attention. And who says we have to like an author to like his books?
Edie Ching at St. Albans School
Message----From: Denise I. Matulka [mailto:dimatulka at alltel.net] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 9:08 PM To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] BookTV C-SPAN2
Having not read "The Corrections" but well aware of Franzen's comments about Oprah and the general American reading public, I found myself scratching his book off my already too long list of "must read" books. I LOATHE vain, self ?ntered people. Talented he may well be, but counting myself among the "the general American reading public" I refuse to give him acknowledgment or another dollar in his pocket.
P.S. Check out his photo! Talented and quite handsome....shame he has no heart and humility-?spite what critics say of his writing....doesn't seem fair somehow....
http://www.fsbassociates.com/fsg/corrections.htm#author
Denise I. Matulka Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign dimatulka at alltel.net matulka at uiuc.edu
(217) 332F22 Imaginary Lands: Promoting Children's Literature http://imaginarylands.org
She was a woman sawed in half It was done by a bad magician There was a point at which she just had to laugh You could appreciate her position
Her legs in one way, and her head another She just kept thinking about...walking away They tried to put her back together underneath the cover But her heart kept getting in, getting in the way
From "Woman Sawed in Half" (1997) John Hiatt
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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:13:56 -0500
I think you might be judging the man too harshly. I heard him do a reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. and then answer questions. He was polite, a bit self effacing and his responses were thoughtful. He seemed very respectful of his audience, even faced with some off the wall comments. Why not give him the benefit of the doubt? My guess is that he is a bit overwhelmed by all of this attention. And who says we have to like an author to like his books?
Edie Ching at St. Albans School
Message----From: Denise I. Matulka [mailto:dimatulka at alltel.net] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 9:08 PM To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] BookTV C-SPAN2
Having not read "The Corrections" but well aware of Franzen's comments about Oprah and the general American reading public, I found myself scratching his book off my already too long list of "must read" books. I LOATHE vain, self ?ntered people. Talented he may well be, but counting myself among the "the general American reading public" I refuse to give him acknowledgment or another dollar in his pocket.
P.S. Check out his photo! Talented and quite handsome....shame he has no heart and humility-?spite what critics say of his writing....doesn't seem fair somehow....
http://www.fsbassociates.com/fsg/corrections.htm#author
Denise I. Matulka Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign dimatulka at alltel.net matulka at uiuc.edu
(217) 332F22 Imaginary Lands: Promoting Children's Literature http://imaginarylands.org
She was a woman sawed in half It was done by a bad magician There was a point at which she just had to laugh You could appreciate her position
Her legs in one way, and her head another She just kept thinking about...walking away They tried to put her back together underneath the cover But her heart kept getting in, getting in the way
From "Woman Sawed in Half" (1997) John Hiatt
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