Not it!
Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Volans - Aug 02, 2006 6:55:16 am PDT #1079 of 28129
move out and draw fire
Aims - Aug 02, 2006 6:57:21 am PDT #1080 of 28129
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 28129
"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 28129
"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 28129
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Frank, I thought that, too. I think Joe was thinking more about the social commentary.
Polter-Cow - Aug 02, 2006 7:07:12 am PDT #1084 of 28129
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hmm, I'd say it's more like LORD OF THE RINGS, but with rabbits.
It's kind of like Lost, but with rabbits.
I'm 150 pages into Kavalier and Clay, and I don't even have slash goggles, but I feel like Chabon is fucking with me on purpose. As for the story, it started out a little slow, but it's really taken off now that they've finally started work on the comic.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 02, 2006 7:08:35 am PDT #1085 of 28129
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I think Joe was thinking more about the social commentary.
Hmmm. I didn't really pick up a lot of social commentary or allegory. Granted I read it in high school, but I'd also read ANIMAL FARM (heh - type HOUSE at first; definitely not the same) by then. Of course, missing the social commentary in ANIMAL FARM is like missing a shovel to the face. I didn't even know a whole lot about Lenin/Stalin/Trotsky at the time I read it, but I couldn't miss it was MAKING A POLITICAL STATEMENT about something related to dictators.
Polter-Cow - Aug 02, 2006 7:10:31 am PDT #1086 of 28129
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I didn't really pick up a lot of social commentary or allegory. Granted I read it in high school
I read it in ninth grade, and I don't know whether I "picked up" on the social commentary, but I did understand that it wasn't just a story about rabbits. If it was making comments on specific things, I'm sure I didn't make the connection, but I do recall appreciating it for being social commentary, with bunnies.
Nutty - Aug 02, 2006 7:12:47 am PDT #1087 of 28129
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I'm 150 pages into Kavalier and Clay, and I don't even have slash goggles, but I feel like Chabon is fucking with me on purpose.
Or possibly it's a universe where some characters are just gay. That happens in novels sometimes. Hint.
I liked the slow parts, when I read that book. It eased me into the story in a way that worked for me -- gave me parameters for how it would work, how the characters would brush up against fame and famous events and fit into the real world as I know it. Creating that space slowly helped me understand that this was not going to be a fictionalized history of real events, but a riff on reality. Not a substitution, but an addition.
Aims - Aug 02, 2006 7:13:31 am PDT #1088 of 28129
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I remember there were pigs. In pants.
It's funny cause in one of my classes we're talking about critical reading vs casual reading. And it occured to me that I don't do critical reading. If it's reading for school, I gloss over it. With the exception of Harry Potter, when I read casually, I read and enjoy it and then I'm done. I sometimes take something away, but mostly I think, "I liked that." or "That was crap." So, I often miss the deeper message.