gore vidal: nob or pleb?

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he wz being dissed on the nabokov thread, and i really really like lincoln and also maybe burr and 1876, and julian — but i read that 20 years ago — and i just realised reading FLASHMAN AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD that gmf read lincoln and actually works a similar kind of territory (and was first into it possibly? what date is burr?)

also nabokov is a bit of a poopiehead

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 10 November 2002 01:24 (twenty-three years ago)

also caligula is the best movie evah made

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 10 November 2002 01:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I like his essays a lot, but I haven't read the novels.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 10 November 2002 04:27 (twenty-three years ago)

i think that myer breckinbridge is an astute satire on gender and sex before satires on that thing were done.

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 10 November 2002 04:40 (twenty-three years ago)

i've only read live from golgotha and it was horrible! it offended my longing for exotic romanticism (which is what i look for in historical fiction and fantasy). wow that sounds awful doesn't it?

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 10 November 2002 05:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I enjoyed his satirical novels, but found the historical ones rather turgid and hard work.

Since I may have sparked this off to a degree by quoting GV on Nabokov, I shall offer my favourite quote about Gore, from Princess Margaret: "The trouble with him is that he wants my sister's job."

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 10 November 2002 12:13 (twenty-three years ago)

He is a pox: as I once said, I have frequently wanted to punch Gore Vidal in the stomach. Surely even HE must get tired of the overbearing patrician schtick that's his stock-in-trade: how many times can someone telegraph a contemptuous "well, of course" with every cynical turn of thought before it becomes totally arse?

It is Sunday morning; please, do not expect original thoughts to spill out from my brain.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 10 November 2002 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

ALL NEW THOUGHTS ALL THE TIME. We're too lazy to make our own no matter what the time of day.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 10 November 2002 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)

the hair styling bloke?

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 10 November 2002 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

No that's Siegfried Sassoon. He was World War One's most famous barber, if I have my facts right.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 10 November 2002 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Alberto Balsam!
Oh, sorry, I thought this was the What Are You Listening To thread.

― Rebecca (reb), Sunday, 10 November 2002 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

he was wallpaper in the gattaca picture

(but so was everyone and i kind of liked it anyway)

― jones (actual), Sunday, 10 November 2002 18:31 (twenty-three years ago)

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