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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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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."

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Hayden - Jul 21, 2006 7:28:35 am PDT #1074 of 28127

aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

From Slate:

We earlier wondered aloud what the deal was with the fleeting appearance on Amazon.com of a synopsis of Untitled Thomas Pynchon. Was it a) a brilliant and deranged gag; b) a brilliant Barnum-caliber stunt; c) a screw-up. If you were playing at home and chose c), then we congratulate you on your perspicacity and enviable lack of cynicism. Pynchon wrote the description of the book, which is titled Against the Day, himself. Its initial posting was premature. (Also, your exceedingly polite reporter regrets any earlier implication that Penguin Press' publicity chief disavowed knowledge of the synopsis itself, as opposed to its presence on the Web site.)

I wonder what the starchy Pynchonologists who weighed in on Amazon and Pynchonoid that it was obviously a work of lesser talent aping Pynchon now think.

Frankenbuddha - Jul 21, 2006 7:33:54 am PDT #1075 of 28127

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I wonder what the starchy Pynchonologists who weighed in on Amazon and Pynchonoid that it was obviously a work of lesser talent aping Pynchon now think.

Heh. Saw the update in Slate just before you posted that. I'll wager at least some will claim it's a sign that Pynchon's not in top form anymore.

Aims - Aug 02, 2006 6:12:09 am PDT #1076 of 28127

Shit's all sorts of different now.

I began Watership Down last night. I've never read it. So far, I like it. It reads a lot like Ender's Game to me. Same tone, I've kinda made Fiver Ender and Pipkin Bean.

So, yeah. I like it. I needed a nice light-hearted bunny story, and now I have one!

Strega - Aug 02, 2006 6:51:22 am PDT #1077 of 28127

nice light-hearted bunny story

...

Who wants to tell her?

Sparky1 - Aug 02, 2006 6:54:45 am PDT #1078 of 28127

Librarian Warlord

Who wants to tell her?

Not it!

Volans - Aug 02, 2006 6:55:16 am PDT #1079 of 28127

move out and draw fire

Not it!

Aims - Aug 02, 2006 6:57:21 am PDT #1080 of 28127

Shit's all sorts of different now.

Hee. I already asked Joe about it and he told me a little bit. He tried to equate it to Animal Farm to which I responded, "I never read Animal Farm ." He said, "Ok, you saw the TNT movie a couple of years ago." I thought about it and said, "I remember there were pigs."

He just sighed and went back inside.

Frankenbuddha - Aug 02, 2006 6:57:43 am PDT #1081 of 28127

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Not it!

Frankenbuddha - Aug 02, 2006 6:59:16 am PDT #1082 of 28127

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Hee. I already asked Joe about it and he told me a little bit. He tried to equate it to Animal Farm to which I responded, "I never read Animal Farm ." He said, "Ok, you saw the TNT movie a couple of years ago." I thought about it and said, "I remember there were pigs."

Hmm, I'd say it's more like LORD OF THE RINGS, but with rabbits.

Aims - Aug 02, 2006 7:00:37 am PDT #1083 of 28127

Shit's all sorts of different now.

Frank, I thought that, too. I think Joe was thinking more about the social commentary.

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