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[poliphilo]

I don't like Graham Greene- too angsty, too catholic, too self-conscious (also dull)- but I admire him.

Sometimes I call myself a writer. Well hush my mouth. I'm a dilettante, a dabbler. To produce book after book after book and then when inspiration fails to go crawling all over the globe in search of untold stories- that's being a writer!

Happy 100th birthday, Graham!

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I read Ministry of Fear once. That's trashy and breezy. And I like some of his film work- The Third Man especially. But I've always found his "serious" novels turgid and humourless and weighed down by their own importance.