December 01, 2003

My wife has every book E. R. Burroughs has ever written...I've yet to pick one up, but I will soon...one of the reasons she let me hit on her when I first met her was...that she was thinking ..."he sounds kinda like I imagined John Carter sounding like.."..of course...that was in a pub...in Scotland...so...I doubt I sound like a Virginian...

"Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories" is a favorite book of mine. Jean Shepherd truly mastered the art of anecdotal musings.

Well, I'm with ya on the first three, that's for sure - have spent many happy hours in their company. I'd also Louis L'Amour to the list of supposed 'hack' writers who write damn good stuff.

Maybe E.R. Burroughs was a hack, but he was a successful hack. You can't be a successful hack without being a damn good writer. Not "literary stylist," writer!!

By this definition, you'd have to include as hacks people like Arthur Conan Doyle and, arguably, Charles Dickens.

Thank you for a list of authors which I will now explore. For some reason, maybe female, I've missed a few of these. I'll confess, I never saw a Playboy until after I was 21. But then I did discover Playgirl!

I'm glad you have Grizzard on there. He was something else. But, you knew that. You knew I'd been reading him for years. I've always said that you remind me of him.

Acidman, I'd say the teachers taught you HOW to write but not WHAT to write.

Any American can learn a thing or two from Hemingway, right?

I didn't see the Lewis Grizzard link at first, and I was going to ask what you thought of him. After we left Georgia, my dad bought all his books, so I've been reading him since I was in my teens. Brilliant writer. Shame to lose him.

i recommend to you cormac mccarthy. specifically, blood meridian and sutree.

Lileks is Midwestern, not Yankee.

Well, if you consider a "Yankee" to be anything north of the Mason-Dixon line, Sugarmama, he is.

Good choices on the list, Acidman. A lot of people have influenced my writing, but most of them are true-crime authors with a really small following, so I won't bore anybody by mentioing them here. But to your selections, I'd add Patrick McManus, who's written a series of semi-autobiographical books about his childhood. He's a hunter and fisherman, and his books all revolve around sport in one way or another. I think he's lost a little off his fastball now, but if you only read one of his books, try "They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?"

That should be "mentioning." Preview is my friend, aarrggh. . .

Oh, BTW, McManus is a comedy writer, like Barry and Grizzard.

I loved Shep...he made some great TV shows (and a memorable movie, too!), as well. I live a town over from his fictional "Hohmann, Indiana"...always running into his inspirations.

Shepherd's "The Ferrari in the Bedroom" is another good one; that's in my bookcase, along with most of Grizzard's writings, as well as Dave Barry's. I also have "Real Ponies Don't Go Oink" by McManus and have read several others by him.

One of my favorite writers in this genre is Shirley Jackson of "The Lottery" and "The Haunting of Hill House" fame. She wrote a couple of very funny books based on her private life as a wife and mother; "Life among the Savages" and "Raising Demons"....talk about having a gift with words.

For political observational humor, no one beats P.J. O'Rourke.

I like the group. I would throw in Louis L'Amour. Read his westerns and you would swear you would see the same scenery if you took the trail his books take you on. He also has a common sensical approach to his characters.

Acidman, are you familiar with George MacDonald Fraser? He's famous for his "Flashman"series, but has written screenplays, too-the most famous was for "The Three Musketeers"(The Oliver Reed & Raquel Welch version). If you only read one of his books, I'd recommend "Quartered Safe Out Here"; it's his account of Life in the British Army during the battle for Burma in World War II. Good and sobering stuff.

Yep, pretty good bunch. :)

To go to war with untrained people is tantamount to abandoning them.

A solved puzzle is just a picture.

There is no end to the adventures we can have if we seek them with our eyes wide open.

Hi...I´m just surfed in and want to say hello!
Regards George

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