Style- who's got it, who ain't?

[Batley]

In a manner of speaking - have you not read Freaky Dancing?

I have Jesus, it is terrible, great, awful, magic..excruciatingly dreadful oh fuck it I like the Mondays so i don't care.

 

[veracity]

In a manner of speaking - have you not read Freaky Dancing?

Not sure if Bez wrote this himself!

 

[Orang Utan]

He dictated it himself though!

 

[Batley]

I am just pleased to see that this thread has gone from the stylistic merits of Dostoevsky and Henry James to the man who once said 'I dint like Japan, der were too many Chinks abouwt'

 

[Sunspots]

I'm reading 'Not Fade Away' by Jim Dodge, who is a man with style. I've read a thousand books with that hip American ease, but Dodge is pretty smooth. Everything Kerouac wished he was but wasn't.

I loved that book.

Never quite got 'round to reading Stone Junction though.

 

[Dirty Martini]

I loved that book.

Never quite got 'round to reading Stone Junction though.

"Simple pain is a job for drugs" So many good lines in this, loving it.

I thought I was up with the contemporary Americans but I'd never heard of Dodge till recently.

 

[chooch]

B S Johnson has style, except when he's too try-hard.

 

[foo]

rorymac.

 

[Groucho]

rorymac.

Was that a Dadaist gesture?

 

[chooch]

Is Rory a dadaist gesture?

 

[carters]

Not sure if Bez wrote this himself!

Think it was ghostwritten by his wife, Deborah Faulkner.