re: We need to get this Mizzou fan to start posting on the SECRant...

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It's a heavy book to get through, mostly because Dickey's writing style is so poetic in nature. I mean, dude was chosen as Poet Laureate in 1966

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I usually like a writer like that. Charles Portis, an Arkansas native comes to mind (True Grit, Gringos, etc.), but not in the sense of being "poetic" as much as being a master of linguistics in regard to specific cultural dialects. Maybe it's the same...