in fact I found a review that I agree with completely:
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/zimbabwe/veray1.htm
KS
On 29/04/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> yeah, I wonder whether I'm giving Vera too little credit; but I just
> have an instinctive & powerful dislike for something that sounds as
> overflowing as 'BB'. it doesn't feel genuine, a lot of the time;
> though I may be warming to the book ever so slightly, not enough to
> say I 'like' it or anything, but as the story picks up the
> descriptions don't sound quite so pushy. it's still my least-favourite
> book that I can remember ever reading.
>
> KS
>
> On 28/04/07, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > '... particularly pointless.' That was their great attraction for me:
> > the way they mirrored life.
> >
> > Androo
> >
> >
> > On 28/04/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > I've never understood the three stooges either. Yet most double acts
> > > rely on great cruelty, mental or otherwise. I can't think of one which
> > > didn't involve some sort of humiliation one way or another. The three
> > > stooges just seem particularly pointless.
> > >
> > > Roger
> > >
> > > On 4/27/07, Jennifer Compton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > > there is nothing that one man will not do to another
> > > >
> > > > i was raised without tv and my family would always go to the Kinema in
> > > > Kilbunie for the Friday film.
> > > > In those days there was always a newsreel and a short film - often the three
> > > > stooges
> > > > i could not take the three stooges - they were so cruel to each other -
> > > > stapling each others fingers and chucking pies in each others faces - I
> > > > would begin hyperventilating and my mother would hiss at me - go outside -
> > > > so i would stroll up and down the foyer - hardly ever made it to the main
> > > > movie
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----Original Message Follows----
> > > > From: Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > > Subject: Re: saddest book ever written? most repellent?
> > > > Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:19:05 -0400
> > > >
> > > > Jennifer Compton wrote:
> > > > >The Bridge Over The River Drina doesn't suck - but it is way too much for
> > > > >me. It describes horrors - the same sort of horrors that happened and still
> > > > >happen - and I know they happen, but in the book they got right under my
> > > > >skin and I simply couldn't read on.
> > > >
> > > > I wish people would quite REMINDING me of stuff. Disgust and horror? I
> > > > give you Mario Vargas Llosa's *The Feast of the Goat*, a presumed fiction
> > > > about the last days of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Dominican dictator.
> > > > Included are his grotesque pedophilia, his assassination, and the
> > > > post-assassination revenges perpetrated by his two sons Ramfis and Radames.
> > > > The fact that Llosa turns Trujillo into something resembling a fully rounded
> > > > human being makes him even more appalling than his political acts, which
> > > > included the massacre of hundreds of Haitian refugees.
> > > >
> > > > ken
> > > >
> > > > ------------------
> > > > Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
> > > >
> > > > "It takes a big man to cry. It takes a really big man to
> > > > laugh at that man."
> > > >
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