OT: Summer Reading

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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I have not read Fante, but I cannot believe there is an American writer greater than Faulkner.

It depends on what you like to read. If you like to have a good time while you're reading and like a laugh on nearly every page, then you'll like Fante. He's got a really unusual style. The prose jumps off the page and has a poetic quality to it even though for the most part he's using popular vocabulary and slang. He's very easy to read and relate to. I consider William Faulkner to be kind of a bore and not at all fun to read. They do share a similarity though. Fante's novels are all about one character, Arturo Bandini. Faulkners all take place in the same imagined town.

Fante also loved baseball. He brings up Nick Altrock in one of the books. I forget which one. Arturo Bandini # 1 to me.