Originally Posted By: nassim
Originally Posted By: Barry the Pirate
My dog is smarter than Gore Vidal. A pompous voice and affected accent does not a genius make.


Yeah, take away the accent and Gore Vidal doesn't have much going for him. His books suck. Has anyone who is under the age of sixty and is not a paid up subscriber to Mother Jones ever gotten through one of his doorstops?


His early book Messiah is a very good novel (not too long either), his early teleplays are great and his essays are very good stuff as well. He's a mediocre novelist but so is Joan Didion.