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To: frankw1900 who wrote (23891)	10/12/2013 11:11:37 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24758

I was trying to emulate Apollo in "Who Mourns for Adonis", STOS, where he's lamenting the fact that there's no place for a god any more to the other supernumerary Greek gods who already gave up, thinned out, and blew away. That's really cool that you're reading a set. I did that with Tom Swift Jr, The Hardy Boys, James Bond, to name a few. You get a lot more than you would from reading just a few. You get insight about what the author was trying to do in the previously read ones. I was lucky to have read these three almost contiguously from first to last. Did doing all that reading help me to write better later? No. When I read I was in dreamland as though one is in a theater watching a film. I wasn't evaluating paragraphs for their ideas just in the way that few watch a movie from the position of the director. We want to be entertained. Thus, you thinned out of here to go do something entertaining. You were right.

To: frankw1900 who wrote (23891)	10/13/2013 10:39:53 AM
From: Ahda	Respond to of 24758

Beautiful!

To: frankw1900 who wrote (23891)	10/13/2013 8:20:54 PM
From: KailuaBoy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24758

Frank, My list: James Michener - I've read every novel he has written. Read The Covenant The Covenant three times and Hawaii (where I grew up) twice. I like his stories and the historical part of historical fiction means I learn something while I'm entertained. Kind of like this message board. Cormac McCarthy - very good writing but you can't read too much at one time or you will never recover. James Clavelle - Good stuff about the far east. Charles Bukowski - His tombstone, no joke reads "Don't Try". One quote which sums Bukowski up is this: "Somebody at one of these places [...] asked me: 'What do you do? How do you write, create?' You don't, I told them. You don't try. That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like its looks you make a pet out of it." Steven King - I know the subject matter is adolescent but I think he does a very good job in a limited realm. I'm reading On The Road by Kerouac for the first time because I ran across it and know its reputation. I don't like it. Travelling bums. KB