Leon Uris: C or D?

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I've got Exodus sat on one of my shelves, asking to be read. But I don't know. Have you had any literary encounters with the man? Worth reading or not?

― Charles Dexter (Holey), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

My Mam really likes his stuff and says she learned a lot from him, and she's not thick or anything, so I've always been well-disposed towards him. He really has dropped out of fashion, though.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

What does c or d mean?

― AccentMonkey?, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

It means classic or dud, you inquisitive monkey.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I read Exodus once. It's pretty exciting, although not recommended if you are interested in actually learning about the Middle East.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

DV, read Trinity - hilarious. Not in a good way, though.

― David N (David N.), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Hum, think I might not bother with Exodus. Read something a little more informative instead.

― Charles Dexter (Holey), Thursday, 10 June 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd be curious to read Exodus again, now that I know a bit more about the history of the place. It might be that it is not that inaccurate as such, it's just the way it interprets events. From memory, the Palestinans are very greasy foreigner, although there is a bit where the nice Palestinian (who has made freinds with the hero character) registers that the Zionists are going to fuck his people over and steal their country.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothin cracks a turle like Leon Uris.

― Leee's a Simpson (Leee), Sunday, 13 June 2004 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Exodus, the musical

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin Amis has an excellent book review (of Updike, I think) that begins with a list of literary opposites: Updike and Beckett, Joyce Carol Oates and Borges, etc. Leon Uris and Nicholson Baker are another pair, he says, which has always kept me from trying Uris (since Baker is one of my absolute favorites)

― David Elinsky (David Elinsky), Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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