My only Irving is Hotel New Hampshire a long, long time ago.
Murk: But you're a God! The Sacred Glorificus! Glory: I'm a God in exile. Far from the Hellfires of Home and sharing my body with an enemy that stabs my boys in their fleshy little stomachs!
'Dirty Girls'
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."
Amy - Oct 28, 2009 12:31:07 pm PDT #10270 of 28377
Because books.
beth b - Oct 28, 2009 12:38:17 pm PDT #10271 of 28377
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 28377
"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 28377
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.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 28, 2009 12:48:01 pm PDT #10274 of 28377
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
The all-caps drove me insane.
Being a Terry Pratchett fan, I didn't mind much.
megan walker - Oct 28, 2009 12:54:44 pm PDT #10275 of 28377
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Irvings I have known (in order of preference):
A Widow for One Year
The Cider House Rules
The World According to Garp
The Hotel New Hampshire
I have a special fondness for Garp, mostly because of the film, but I loved
A Widow for One Year.
Amy - Oct 28, 2009 12:58:22 pm PDT #10276 of 28377
Because books.
Oh wait, I read Garp, too. That's it, though, although I have a copy of Widow around somewhere, I think.
DavidS - Oct 28, 2009 1:04:47 pm PDT #10277 of 28377
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Everybody needs to read the early Irvings too!
Water Method Man is flat out hilarious. It might be his funniest book.
erikaj - Oct 28, 2009 1:10:42 pm PDT #10278 of 28377
Always Anti-fascist!
I always meant to, but he writes long. I've read New Hampshire Garp(duh! I think about the Ellen Jamesians all the time, most notablly during Terri Schiavo.) Cider House Rules(There's an upper! NOT!) Owen Meany and I think "Widow"
JZ - Oct 28, 2009 2:15:43 pm PDT #10279 of 28377
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
The Water Method Man rules. Someday we should have a fall F2F and celebrate Throgsgaffen (sp?). And Setting Free the Bears is also glorious. As are Cider House, Garp and Owen Meany. I don't think I could read HNH again due to a bone-deep incest squick, but I'm not at all sorry I read it the once (so much good writing all around the squick, and I might never have found Donald Justice's poetry without it). And the nonfiction collection, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed, is fantastic.