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- From: pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (philip marlowe)
- Newsgroups: alt.horror
- Subject: Re: HPL
- Message-ID: <aN2LuB5w165w@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 17:29:09 EST
- References: <Bxtvop.6o2@willamette.edu>
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- ehenness@willamette.edu (Ethan D. Hennessey) writes:
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- > In article <wZu6TB4w165w@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs
- > >mlm@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael McCool) writes:
- > >
- > >> philip marlowe (pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca) wrote:
- > >> :
- > >> : Let's face reality here -- HPL was a LOUSY writer. His prose was so
- > >> : thick and convoluted that it's almost impossible to read -- almost
- > >> : Milton-esque, in a strange kind of way.
- > >> :
- > >> : That said, I do read his stuff every now and again because his
- > >> : imagination ALMOST overcomes the turgid prose...not an easy thing to do.
- > >> :
- > >>
- > >> Expect a LOT of e-mail.
- > >> --MLM
- > >
- > >
- > > Let 'em come...I'll take 'em on one at a time, or all at once.
- > > HPL WAS a lousy writer.
- > >
- > > And so is Dean R. Koontz.
- > >
- > >marlowe
- >
- > Okay, Mr Opinion man, so who is your idea of a good writer? Hemingway,
- > I suppose. Dick and Jane primers?
- >
- >
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- William S. Burroughs
- Raymond Chandler
- Robert Coover
- Andrew Vachss
- Dan Simmons
- Charles Bukowski
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- And, yes, Earnest Hemmingway.
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- marlowe
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