Absalom, Absalom! has a 1,287-word sentence.
Two by two, hands of blue. Two by two, hands of blue.
River ,'Ariel'
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."
Ginger - May 11, 2010 8:43:06 am PDT #11360 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Steph L. - May 11, 2010 8:46:49 am PDT #11361 of 28344
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 28344
"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 28344
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 28344
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 28344
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 28344
"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 28344
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.
Gudanov - May 12, 2010 10:59:26 am PDT #11368 of 28344
Coding and Sleeping
Speaking of which, I added a page on my blog devoted to book recommendations of mine. I intend to add more detail as in the future, but FWIW. A lot of these are staples at the moment, but I've been listening to staples lately, it's what my library has for downloadable audiobooks.
Polter-Cow - May 12, 2010 10:01:30 pm PDT #11369 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just finished Feed, by Mira Grant, my friend's zombie political thriller, described as Transmetropolitan meets The West Wing meets Night of the Living Dead, which makes it a very Buffista book, in my opinion. Also adding to this opinion is the fact that John Rogers loved it. There is also a cool website. Well done, Orbit.
The book is awesome and I think everyone should read it.