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- From: Minotaur@cup.portal.com (A Frank Swilling)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Top GLB Fiction (actually Delany)
- Message-ID: <72659@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 18:35:17 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <cccrsbc8.724635893@brolga>
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- Steve Dyer talks with Bill Hsu about Samuel Delany:
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- >In article <1992Dec22.124058.3613@nic.csu.net> hsu@walnut.sfsu.edu writes:
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- >>Well which of Delany's books have you read, Steve? Do tell.
- >
- >_The Motion of Light in Water_, which is really wonderful. He really
- >should write a follow on to his autobiography. The man _can_ write; I
- >just don't find the fiction he writes very interesting. I found both
- >"Stars in My Pocket..." and "Dhalgren" to be impenetrable and unrewarding.
- >Boring.
-
- >Steve Dyer
-
- I liked "Dhalgren" myself, though it did go on too long. Some interesting
- characters and situations and one of the first mainstream things I'd
- read where homosexual liasons were matter-of-factly an integral part of
- the environment.
-
- "Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand", though, I found to be completely
- unreadable. I've since read a review which claimed that "Stars" was
- supposed to be some kind of breakthrough in reader participation in
- the creation of the novel. Uh-huh. The only creation I participated
- in with that book was one king-sized headache from trying to get an
- inkling as to what the hell it was trying to say.
-
- Frank
- Minotaur@cup.portal.com
-