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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden

Post Number: 7035
Registered: 03-2004

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Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 01:06 pm:

So far I think Beatty (who was a fantastic poet and one of my two favorite of the 90's the other being Sapphire)has fallen flat as a novelist.

He has a great sense of humor, is very intelligent and has a wide, literate frame of reference but he don't like his characters very much--they tend to be flat caricatures.

He is more of a polemicist, like Ishmael Reed.

I have read Tuff and White Boy Shuffle and will check this one out.

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