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Roots
twistedude:
Odd, when i had read it...I stopped writing altogether.
Does anyone know who "271 Horses" is?
coffeecat33:
I know what you mean; I have hardly been able to read or write much else either since I finished Roots/Earl & Rich.
271horses also wrote Widower which is a great piece of writing although unfinished. I have seen other people refer to him as AJ. He might be on the DC boards, but I don't know. He seems to reply to all of his comments.
cc33 / Leslie K.
twistedude:
Yes--isn't it wonderful how he weighs and answers all comments so carefully!
Sid tells me he IS on DC, andf listed under "271 Horses." I thought I had looked through all the numbered members (as in "271")--but couldn't find him. I'll look again.
Since two members of my immediate family supported (and one still does) themselves entirely by writing, the first thing I think of when i read something wonderful is "A LOT OF PEOPLE SHOULD READ THIS." Especially when the scope of the work, as in "Roots," goes far beyond the territory of BBM (which is not to say it doesn't lay the groundwork for BBM). But it stands by itself--I think.
His answer was that he did not feel himself "in the same league" with AP,--but it's a NOVEL, not s short story, and wonderful short stories can be counted on the toes asnd fingers of one man.
Why not compare it, for instance, to Conan Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet"? (really a short novel) Which I think an inferior work to his (although I enjoyed it).
coffeecat33:
Yes, unquestionably, ROOTS stands on its own. Fitting, isn't it? It has the support, or roots, it needs to stand on its own.
cc33
coffeecat33:
I made an avatar for ROOTS
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