NWR: Side argument - Jonathan Franzen, great or shit?

[MLipton]

I am right now completing The Maze at Windermere, which was a Christmas present from my wife. I'm enjoying it quite a bit but will reserve further comment until I've completed it.

Mark Lipton

 

[Christian Miller (CMM)]

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by Christian Miller (CMM):
FWIW, A Brief History of Seven Killings blew me away in 2017.

No pun intended?

Mark Lipton

Late night posting, didn't even notice it until now!
The body count in the novel is very high.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by Christian Miller (CMM):

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by Christian Miller (CMM):
FWIW, A Brief History of Seven Killings blew me away in 2017.

No pun intended?

Mark Lipton

Late night posting, didn't even notice it until now!
The body count in the novel is very high.

Hard to beat Blood Meridian on that score.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

Trying to remember a quote from an Elizabethan play I read in high school (may have been Marlowe or Webster, not necessarily the Bard) which says that a sovereign is like the source of a river; if he is virtuous the river is flows clear and if he is not the river is poisoned or muddied, something to that effect. Does this ring a bell for anyone with better memory?