In German, you can write an entire sentence as a single word.
Hell, "backpfeifengesicht" is practically a whole sentance.
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
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."
Frankenbuddha - May 11, 2010 8:09:04 am PDT #11358 of 28384
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Steph L. - May 11, 2010 8:32:19 am PDT #11359 of 28384
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oy, in the book I just finished, I had to slog through, no lie, a 103 word sentence/paragraph.
One of my favorite passages in Absalom, Absalom! includes a sentences that goes on for, like, at least half a page.
I was just about to ask Barb, "Faulkner?" Other contenders include Henry James and James Joyce. But mostly Faulkner.
Ginger - May 11, 2010 8:43:06 am PDT #11360 of 28384
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Absalom, Absalom! has a 1,287-word sentence.
Steph L. - May 11, 2010 8:46:49 am PDT #11361 of 28384
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oh, Faulkner. You wacky wordsmith.
Ginger - May 11, 2010 8:50:51 am PDT #11362 of 28384
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The thing is, Faulkner has 1,000-word sentences that are worth reading, whereas many books have 10-word sentences that aren't worth the trouble.
Toddson - May 11, 2010 12:23:45 pm PDT #11363 of 28384
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Lucius Beebe (who wrote a column for Gourmet) once produced a column that was a single sentence. When his editor (this was back in the days when editors would actually edit) complained, Beebe told him to break it up himself. The editor couldn't find anyplace TO break it.
I remember reading someone describe Beebe's writings as "so rococco you could carve grottos out of it."
Maysa - May 11, 2010 10:33:14 pm PDT #11364 of 28384
I wasn't quite able to get into it, but Garcia Marquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch also has sentences that go for pages and pages and are occasionally entire chapters (LONG chapters).
Consuela - May 12, 2010 5:07:53 am PDT #11365 of 28384
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I believe there's like a 17-page sentence in Swann's Way. Or at least it felt like it was 17 pages long.
Frankenbuddha - May 12, 2010 5:22:34 am PDT #11366 of 28384
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Proust in his first book wrote about...wrote about
Gudanov - May 12, 2010 9:01:43 am PDT #11367 of 28384
Coding and Sleeping
I've giving Dune another listen because, well because it was in my glove box when my other recording ran out.
I enjoying it quite a bit, but it's one of those books that oddly doesn't make me want to read more in the series. It feels like a complete experience and I don't want to dilute it with more.
The audiobook is great, full cast and very well produced.