dcn@ihuxl.UUCP (Dave Newkirk) (11/04/85)
I was wondering if any biscuit-eaters out there could give me a reason to go out and buy a copy of Garrison's new book. I'm too shy to buy it without good reason. -- Dave Newkirk, ihnp4!ihuxl!dcn
mink@cfa.UUCP (Doug Mink) (11/13/85)
> I was wondering if any biscuit-eaters out there could give me a reason > to go out and buy a copy of Garrison's new book. I'm too shy to buy > it without good reason. > Dave Newkirk, ihnp4!ihuxl!dcn I read it a couple of months ago, immediately after reading the sesqui- centennial history of my home town (Dundee, IL). It was fun to read GK's slight warping of history, creating people who were more "normal" than real people, but more interesting, too. Comparing real and fictional histories also made me appreciate GK's writing skill, though I think it is very tuned to Lake Wobegone. He had a story in the 10/27 New Yorker set in Vermont, and it reads more like any other New Yorker short story than like other GK work; the characters don't quite make it from normal to interesting. All in all, if you like PHC, you'll like LWD. -Doug Mink