Country Sentiment – 2/5 Stars Here’s the poem that ends this collection: A FIRST REVIEW. Love, Fear and Hate and Childish Toys Are here discreetly blent; Admire, you ladies, read, you boys, My Country Sentiment. But Kate says, “Cut that anger and fear, True love’s the stuff we need! With laughing children and the running deer That makes a book indeed.” Then Tom, a hard and bloody chap, Though much beloved by me, “Robert, have done with nursery pap, Write like a man,” says he. […]
A wry self-awareness missing from so many takedowns of generations of youth.
The Group Here’s a line from the Wikipedia about this book: “Notably, Norman Mailer for The New York Review of Books wrote that, “her book fails as a novel by being good but not nearly good enough…she is simply not a good enough woman to write a major novel.” [6]“ While many of you likely know Norman Mailer as the grump who won’t stop drinking iced tea at the Dragon Fly Inn in Stars Hollow, you might not know he was once a notable piece of shit. That’s […]