gnargh
Have you read House of Leaves ? The footnotes have an appendix that has footnotes.
It's because you didn't have a strong father figure isn't it?
Joyce ,'Chosen'
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."
Polter-Cow - Apr 07, 2011 1:21:35 pm PDT #14315 of 28289
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
le nubian - Apr 07, 2011 1:46:06 pm PDT #14316 of 28289
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Why would footnotes need footnotes?
Cass - Apr 07, 2011 2:27:02 pm PDT #14317 of 28289
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
footnote fetish?
Laga - Apr 07, 2011 3:01:53 pm PDT #14318 of 28289
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Clearly all the other books I've been reading are footnote deficient.
Sheryl - Apr 07, 2011 3:54:34 pm PDT #14319 of 28289
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
I think the Discworld books are as footnote-heavy as I want to get.
DavidS - Apr 07, 2011 4:30:33 pm PDT #14320 of 28289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Clearly all the other books I've been reading are footnote deficient.
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov, get on it.
Laga - Apr 08, 2011 12:57:40 pm PDT #14321 of 28289
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
While I am loving reliving The Book Thief through Mark's eyes, the fact that he hasn't posted a review on Infinite Jest past page 49 is making it much easier for me to pick it up, get halfway through the same paragraph I did last time, and put it right back down again.
edit: I am over the hump, double-endnote-deflowered. I hope this book doesn't end up being beyond Mark's skills as a reviewer because I'm really interested in his take on it.
At this point I'm pretty sure Hal filmed something that the cultural attache is watching and this will end up being something the plot hinges on. Don't tell me if I'm right.
Typo Boy - Apr 08, 2011 2:48:49 pm PDT #14322 of 28289
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
At one point my book's appendices were going to have appendices. Fortunately the Buffistas talked me down.
Steph L. - Apr 09, 2011 11:27:31 am PDT #14323 of 28289
I look more rad than Lutheranism
FYI -- for anyone who bought the $20 Groupon to Barnes & Noble back in February, the amount is reduced to $10 in 2 days, on April 11. That was part of the terms & conditions -- if you don't use it by April 11, it loses half its value.
So if you bought one, go use it before Monday!
DavidS - Apr 10, 2011 7:51:47 am PDT #14324 of 28289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
A long, fascinating, heartbreaking interview with Karen Green, David Foster Wallace's widow.
She's an artist and the first work she did after his death was something called The Forgiveness Machine.
"The forgiveness machine was seven-feet long," she says, "with lots of weird plastic bits and pieces. Heavy as hell." The idea was that you wrote down the thing that you wanted to forgive, or to be forgiven for, and a vacuum sucked your piece of paper in one end. At the other it was shredded, and hey presto.
Green put the machine on display at a gallery in Pasadena near the Los Angeles suburb, Claremont, where she and Wallace had lived in the four years they had been married. She was fascinated by the effect that it had on people who used it. "It was strange," she suggests, "it all looked like fun, but then when the moment came for people to put their message actually in it, they became anxious. It was like: what if it works and I really have to forgive my terrible parent or whoever."
*****
The whole piece is very moving. She's living in Petaluma now, a near neighbor of Tom Waits and close to where Winona Ryder grew up and where Polly Klaas was kidnapped. What an odd nexus.