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From: emneufeld@watdragon.UUCP (Eric Neufeld)
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Subject: Re: Legs by William Kennedy
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Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 12:50:22 EST
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I would like to add my voice to those who think this is a great book.

For my part, fictional writers fall into two great categories: those who
describe life by plot and use detail to flesh out the story and those who
describe life by paying incredible attention to detail which they hang on a
fairly simple plot.

My current favoutites in the latter cateogry are : William Kennedy, Flannery
O'Conner, Thomas Wolfe, Guy VanderHaeghe (the soon to be great Saskatchewan
writer who was recently reviewed in the New Yorker) and Evan S. Connell.

Though I prefer this type of writing, I view it as a matter of taste.  When
it comes to movies, I feel exactly the opposite and love slam bang action
movies, of which the Americans are masters.

Eric Neufeld