<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:15 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4">Thanks to William Flynn Wallace for recommending IQ84, I just finished the third book and it kept my interest to the end and I enjoyed it, although I didn't understand some of the symbolism if that's what it was; I didn't quite get what the "Little People" were all about.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">John K Clark  </font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">​Kind of you to say.  You're welcome.  bill w​</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>=======================</div><div><div class="h5"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 6:07 PM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I have read his first three books, ending with the Wild Sheep Chase, and none of them are literary fiction in the modern sense.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">In lit fic there must be considerations of conflict, bigotry in some form, strife, and so on, with a mixed or tragedic ending.  He has little to none of those, so he is going to get no great reviews from that quarter.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">So who cares what the critics think?  Read customer reviews on Amazon (not ALL of them phony, I assume).  </div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The only downer is the translation, which I assume takes Japanese idioms and metaphors and puts them into American:  'wasted' for 'drunk', for example.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div></div>
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