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Sad Author Desperate To Assert Superiority To Money-Making Author

PikachuMcHeidegger — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:29:48 EDT

@VenusCloacina: There are Dornford Yates and Tom Sharpe fangirls? I've got to get out more.

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Sad Author Desperate To Assert Superiority To Money-Making Author

VenusCloacina — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:16:56 EDT

@PikachuMcHeidegger: Have I read Vintage Stuff? I'm a Tom Sharpe fangirl. Also Simon Raven and Nigel Williams, while we're on the cranky UK satirists tip.

VenusCloacina

Sad Author Desperate To Assert Superiority To Money-Making Author

PikachuMcHeidegger — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:55:41 EDT

@VenusCloacina: Who could fail to love Dornford Yates, who actually named Jonah Mansell's country house "White Ladies"? Have you read Tom Sharpe's Vintage Stuff?

Don't even get me started on pulp love and my main man Talbot Mundy: Tros of Samothrace in the house!

PikachuMcHeidegger

Sad Author Desperate To Assert Superiority To Money-Making Author

VenusCloacina — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:47:46 EDT

@powelton: He blew the chance to sell out by mummifying the story of his somewhat interesting sub-Meyer-Lansky relative in his tiresome prose. I read the book, and it was like having Rick Moody tell you the plot of Guys and Dolls through a Vicodin haze.

Too bad, so sad, thanks for playing, Eric Konigsberg!

@PikachuMcHeidegger: You had me at "Dornford Yates", baby. Gawker comments beat eHarmony all hollow!

VenusCloacina

Sad Author Desperate To Assert Superiority To Money-Making Author

BulletPark — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:55:03 EDT

@harristrinsky: Thanks!

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Sad Author Desperate To Assert Superiority To Money-Making Author

PikachuMcHeidegger — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:31:36 EDT

@VenusCloacina: I read some Oppenheim novels when I was but a lad with what now seems an unusual number of New England attics and used bookstores full of motheatern pulps at my disposal. They weren't very good -- nothing like the (yes, racist) imagination of Sax Rohmer or the (yes, antisemitic) snob appeal of Dornford Yates. Quite a bit of Red panic, too.

PikachuMcHeidegger

Sad Author Desperate To Assert Superiority To Money-Making Author

harristrinsky — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:00:38 EDT

I think this post should have been titled 'Sad Author Desperate To Assert Superiority To More Successful Sad Author Desperate To Assert Superiority To Money-Making Author.'

And BulletPark: Nice libel in an anonymous post. Well done! That's so classy.

harristrinsky

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powelton — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:47:27 EDT

Eric Konigsberg blew his chance to sell out when excepts of his Blood Relation, about a relative of his who committed 20 murders for hire, got published in The New Yorker.

powelton

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VenusCloacina — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:37:20 EDT

Harlan Coben is a very competent writer of thrillers. 100 years from now, he will be as forgotten as E. Phillips Oppenheim is today. And I bet Coben is fine with that.

Eric Konigsberg, however, will probably be equally forgotten, and he's clearly not fine with that at all.

VenusCloacina

Sad Author Desperate To Assert Superiority To Money-Making Author

Glittersauce — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:01:28 EDT

People who wish they lived in glass houses....

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Sad Author Desperate To Assert Superiority To Money-Making Author

Otto-Reimer — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:59:07 EDT

Funny how people who scream Sell-out! are those who are never offered a chance to sell out.

And he realized that when he took out the people at his reading who were actually waiting for Coben, the total attendence to his reading included his mom, his therapist and his friend, who was there just for a touch of schadenfreude.

Otto-Reimer