Wikipedia can be so awesome sometimes: [link]
Angel: Eve. So, I guess we should, I don't know, talk? Eve: About what? Angel: About what happened back there with us. Eve: Angel, it's not like this is the first time I've had sex under a mystical influence. I went to U.C. Santa Cruz.
'Life of the Party'
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."
Tom Scola - Oct 28, 2009 8:44:55 am PDT #10264 of 28414
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Polter-Cow - Oct 28, 2009 8:50:25 am PDT #10265 of 28414
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So it appears that The Hotel New Hampshire is the Ultimate John Irving Novel.
Steph L. - Oct 28, 2009 8:53:33 am PDT #10266 of 28414
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
That is excellent.
Also, it's fucked up yet unsurprising that the Irving books I loved the most in college (Garp, Hotel New Hampshire) were the ones that had all (or almost all) of the recurring themes.
DavidS - Oct 28, 2009 11:55:03 am PDT #10267 of 28414
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
were the ones that had all (or almost all) of the recurring themes.
Water Method Man and Setting Free the Bears both have the usual set of early Irving obsessions: Bears, Austria, Whores, Comic Mayhem, Ironic Death.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 28, 2009 12:20:46 pm PDT #10268 of 28414
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Favourite Irving: Owen Meaney. Possibly because I like slightly twisted takes on religion.
Polter-Cow - Oct 28, 2009 12:21:05 pm PDT #10269 of 28414
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That's my only Irving.
Amy - Oct 28, 2009 12:31:07 pm PDT #10270 of 28414
Because books.
My only Irving is Hotel New Hampshire a long, long time ago.
beth b - Oct 28, 2009 12:38:17 pm PDT #10271 of 28414
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Prayer for Owen Meany is really the only Irving I love
DavidS - Oct 28, 2009 12:38:53 pm PDT #10272 of 28414
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I never read Owen Meaney because of the all caps sections.
Steph L. - Oct 28, 2009 12:43:25 pm PDT #10273 of 28414
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I never read Owen Meaney because of the all caps sections.
The all-caps drove me insane.