![]() ![]() But now that we are older, wiser, and don’t give a damn what our professors or literary betters think, I believe you’ll discover a hell of a writer in Michener, well worth reading even if his memory does seem to be fading from the culture.īack when I was in college, Michener was at the top of the publishing mountain - and at the bottom of his reputation among the smart set. You, like me, may have been put off from reading Michener before by bad advice. ![]() It’s odd, but not having to either buy reprint editions or crack open dusty and crumbling paperbacks made reading Michener seem new to me, as if I were encountering contemporary books instead of novels that are thirty to forty years old. I spent many pleasurable hours listening to the audiobook versions of the books when I wasn’t reading words on a page. In the process, I discovered an American master I never suspected existed. ![]() I spent an entire year reading through the novels of James Michener, especially the “saga” novels of the 1970s and 80s. ![]()
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