From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Sun, 28 Apr 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   It would be interesting to give them a chance. Since I'm not a native   
   english speaker, maybe it would be incomprehensible to me or just plain   
   old "boring". ;)   
      
   I think I'll have to hunt around annas archive to find me a good ebook or   
   two.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)