From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-04-28, D  wrote:   
      
   >> I can't say they were my favorite authors, but I got   
   >> into John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates back in the 1990s,   
   >> and their writing worked absolute magick on my vocabulary.   
   >   
   > I've only read one Joyce Carol Oates book in my life and   
   > that was a history of boxing. Can you recommend a good   
   > second one?   
      
   I liked them all. But my JCO reading indulgence was too   
   long ago to remember any favorite(s).   
      
   In a way, for me the stories took somewhat of a back seat   
   compared to the writing itself when it came to John Updike   
   and Joyce Carol Oates. I remember being in a perpetual   
   state of amazement what could be done with English.   
      
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