Last book that made me cry was Richard Price's "Freedomland"...it ought to, it was essentially an urban recasting of the Susan Smith case.
Weird love's better than no love.
Buffy ,'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."
erikaj - Oct 31, 2009 11:15:10 am PDT #10323 of 28370
Always Anti-fascist!
Polter-Cow - Oct 31, 2009 11:16:15 am PDT #10324 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Wasn't that made into a movie? I fell asleep.
erikaj - Oct 31, 2009 11:25:43 am PDT #10325 of 28370
Always Anti-fascist!
The movie got the *story* right, but didn't capture all the internal stuff or all the history of Dempsy or...which is weird, as Price is a screenwriter, and a good one. I don't know why the adaptation was so disappointing, but then I'm a Price fan also and think his writing is, to use a technical literary term, the shit.
Polter-Cow - Oct 31, 2009 11:27:15 am PDT #10326 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I really liked Clockers, though. We watched that in my film class.
Now that I read the plot description, I see it was quite Wire-esque.
erikaj - Oct 31, 2009 11:30:16 am PDT #10327 of 28370
Always Anti-fascist!
Excellent film. Very different than the book, but both are most excellent.
beth b - Oct 31, 2009 8:13:04 pm PDT #10328 of 28370
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Publishers Weekly 10 best books of the year, the list is beig slammed - no women , no small press books.
Polter-Cow - Oct 31, 2009 9:18:58 pm PDT #10329 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The only book on that list I've even heard of is Await Your Reply, which a friend recommended to me and sounds like something I'd like.
beth b - Oct 31, 2009 9:38:04 pm PDT #10330 of 28370
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
DH read Shop Class as Soulcraft.
It was a confusing book for him. Mainly because Matt does believe that working with your hands does feed your soul. However, the author made a bunch of assumptions that Matt really couldn't buy into. Unfortunately , I only vaguely remember that there was a more conservative spin on things.
eta: I knew of Cheever and The Lost city of Z. I knew none of the fiction. So odd that I knew so little
Calli - Nov 01, 2009 3:18:18 am PST #10331 of 28370
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Hmmmm, nothing I recognize on the list. [looks at books scattered on every horizontal surface] I sure thought I read a goodly number of good books.
Barb - Nov 01, 2009 4:25:26 am PST #10332 of 28370
“Not dead yet!”
Stitches is making a buzz because it's a National Book Awards finalist for Young Adult and a lot of people who read/write YA are going "buzzah?" because it certainly wasn't marketed and I don't believe it's shelved as a YA but because it's part graphic novel and the story is the author's own as an adolescent, it's being viewed as such.
But yeah, a lot of people in genre/commercial fiction are flipping out at the list because it seems even more exclusionary than in the past.