Comments on: An Excerpt From Philip Hensher’s Review of Annie Proulx’s ‘Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3’ http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/an-excerpt-from-philip-henshers-review-of-annie-proulx%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98fine-just-the-way-it-is-wyoming-stories-3%e2%80%99/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Sat, 25 May 2013 15:11:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/an-excerpt-from-philip-henshers-review-of-annie-proulx%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98fine-just-the-way-it-is-wyoming-stories-3%e2%80%99/#comment-6791 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:21:59 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=2439#comment-6791 Thanks for mentioning Highsmith, John. I very much admire some of her suspense novels, which are less appreciated in the U.S. than in Europe (except perhaps for the Ripley books), and hope to write about them on this blog.

]]> By: John Self http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/an-excerpt-from-philip-henshers-review-of-annie-proulx%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98fine-just-the-way-it-is-wyoming-stories-3%e2%80%99/#comment-6788 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:40:03 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=2439#comment-6788 Hensher I think has a point here, and makes it in an amusing way as usual (though he really could tone down his venom a touch, as usual, particularly as he’s no great novelist himself). Patricia Highsmith, a terrific writer within her usual form (suspense fiction), did something similar in Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes, where she brought in all sorts of supernatural stuff which was just laughable. Or, more accurately, tragic.

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/an-excerpt-from-philip-henshers-review-of-annie-proulx%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98fine-just-the-way-it-is-wyoming-stories-3%e2%80%99/#comment-6784 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:35:58 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=2439#comment-6784 More than most authors, Proulx also seems to go way up and down from one book to the next. Did you read the reviews for “Accordion Crimes”? Some of them were just disastrous, even when they came from people who liked “The Shipping News.”

]]> By: tysdaddy http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/an-excerpt-from-philip-henshers-review-of-annie-proulx%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98fine-just-the-way-it-is-wyoming-stories-3%e2%80%99/#comment-6783 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:19:05 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=2439#comment-6783 She is an acquired taste, that’s for sure. I read The Shipping News and loved it, but it is . . . er . . . different. The same could be said of Cormac McCarthy . . .

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/an-excerpt-from-philip-henshers-review-of-annie-proulx%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98fine-just-the-way-it-is-wyoming-stories-3%e2%80%99/#comment-6778 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:49:57 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=2439#comment-6778 Also old-hat for contemporary historical fiction writers like Jean Auel, who has lots of Cro-Magnon love in books like “Clan of the Cave Bear.” Glad your sense of humor jibes with mine …

]]> By: impatientreaderdotcom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/an-excerpt-from-philip-henshers-review-of-annie-proulx%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98fine-just-the-way-it-is-wyoming-stories-3%e2%80%99/#comment-6777 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:32:29 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=2439#comment-6777 He said: “… all totally old-hat for mildly ambitious pulp writers like Isaac Asimov 40 years ago.”

Okay, that’s funny!

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