I...don't even know.
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Huh. Interesting. Now, I read books on my itouch and on my computer -- instant gratification is EXCELLENT at 3 am when you've discovered a new series, or if you are in your underwear and scraggly hair -- but I cannot imagine WRITING anything lengthy on a cell.
I, err.
::coughs::
Yeah, I've probably written at least 10,000 words of fiction on my iPhone, some of it through texting, some in note form.
I usually wind up with 300-400 word chunks that I quilt together and expand in the final versions, but really, most of my drafting now happens on the phone.
Cell phone/text novels are a big deal in Japan where they've been popular for years.
Really just updating the format of the old epistleatory novel, like Dangerous Liaisons.
This is a really interesting article about the cell phone novels in Japan and how they're used by young women as a means for expression:
I haven't kept up -- my first reaction to "cell phone novel" was Steven King's Cell. Where cell phones are a key part of the story, but it definitely isn't a cell phone novel.
Emeline got a personally inscribed copy of Blueberry Girl from our friend Anne this weekend. Damn book made me cry. But she LOVES it. It is quite beautiful. A must-have for young girl children.
She is building up quite the collection of personalized books. She already has The Wolves in the Walls, Micawber (by John Lithgow) and this winter she'll be getting The Last Unicorn since Peter S. Beagle will be at the Con that we always go to.
I'm about a third of the way through A Game of Thrones, and so far am really enjoying it. I haven't read fantasy (Tolkien and Harry Potter excluded) in years, so I'm pleased that this book holding my interest.
Wikipedia can be so awesome sometimes: [link]
So it appears that The Hotel New Hampshire is the Ultimate John Irving Novel.