Re: (Tears) Beyond Rejection (Beyond, volume 1) by Justin Leiber

Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

>
So what was the worst novel written by a son of a famous author that you
have read?

Alexey Tolstoy doesn't count since even though he claimed to be the son of
the Count, he probably wasn't.  And Pliny the Younger turns out only to be
the nephew of Pliny the Elder, not the son.

Dorothy Parker writes:
"Oh, I have worked and seldom cease
 At Dumas pere and Dumas fils
 Alas, I cannot make me care
 For Dumas fils and Dumas pere."

which my father would recite when I was a kid using "Pernod fils and Pernod
pere."  But personally I liked the son's work.

I never read anything by Charles Dickens Jr. and Victor Appleton Jr. was
likely the same team of ghostwriters as his father.

What about Martin Amis's work?
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."