I'M SERIOUS! t edit About the author doing A Thing. Actually, the author does many things, but this one left me yelling at the book and shaking it. And then going, "Daaaaaamn, that's sneaky."
Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.
'Beneath You'
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."
Steph L. - Sep 14, 2010 4:41:41 pm PDT #12410 of 28326
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Barb - Sep 16, 2010 7:20:15 am PDT #12411 of 28326
“Not dead yet!”
So Oprah chose FREEDOM for her final book club.
Quelle surprise
sj - Sep 16, 2010 7:24:36 am PDT #12412 of 28326
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm actually shocked that she would choose another Frazen book considering what happened last time.
Sue - Sep 16, 2010 7:25:58 am PDT #12413 of 28326
hip deep in pie
Franzypants? Seriously? I guess she can't wait for him to eat crow on national television.
erikaj - Sep 16, 2010 7:31:11 am PDT #12414 of 28326
Always Anti-fascist!
I hated his last one so much, I'll never read another one again. Fucking Oprah convinced me to read it, too. I do think there is a mean-spirited tone that passes for humor or snark nowadays and "The Corrections" was full of it. Well, I guess the NYT convinced Maureen Dowd she was funny, too.
Barb - Sep 16, 2010 7:35:21 am PDT #12415 of 28326
“Not dead yet!”
I'm not that shocked-- it's timely, Time anointed him Great American Novelist, the New York Times creamed its collective panties over it, and with the recent brouhaha over gender biases, it allows her Book Club to become socially relevant in a way it really hasn't been for a long while.
Kat - Sep 16, 2010 5:28:35 pm PDT #12416 of 28326
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I find Franzen pompous and irksome. He was on local NPR today and I wanted to reach through the radio and chock a bitch. Especially because he said he took one for the team by naming his book Freedom since it's such a touchy topic.
What. Ev. Er.
Barb - Sep 16, 2010 5:35:40 pm PDT #12417 of 28326
“Not dead yet!”
It's got the butt-ugliest cover, I swear.
I also read some of it and was impressed by the language-- it was lovely and lyrical, but that couldn't make up for the fact that the lead characters were some of the most loathsome characters I've ever come across in fiction.
I just couldn't bring myself to give a shit.
erikaj - Sep 16, 2010 5:37:17 pm PDT #12418 of 28326
Always Anti-fascist!
Exactly.
Jessica - Sep 17, 2010 5:24:10 am PDT #12419 of 28326
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I also read some of it and was impressed by the language-- it was lovely and lyrical, but that couldn't make up for the fact that the lead characters were some of the most loathsome characters I've ever come across in fiction.
That's how I felt about Chronic City.