I'm going to see a staged reading of something from Pale King next week in San Francisco. As the only bit of DFW I've read is "Consider the Lobster", I expect to be completely out of my depth.
Man, you just get darker and darker, and the weird thing is, your aura? Beige.
Host ,'Why We Fight'
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."
Consuela - Apr 10, 2011 8:48:15 am PDT #14329 of 28289
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Laga - Apr 10, 2011 8:49:03 am PDT #14330 of 28289
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I wished I finished Infinite Jest when I started it, years ago.
If you want to try picking it up again, I'll probably be ready in a few days.
Tom Scola - Apr 10, 2011 8:59:54 am PDT #14331 of 28289
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I brought Infinite Jest Along with me in 1997 on my trip to New Zealand, for the long plane ride. I ended up hauling the huge book with me the whole time. I can’t claim I understood all of it, and I skimmed a couple of really difficult chapters, but I finished it, and I really enjoyed it, and was mostly in awe of the writing.
Liese S. - Apr 10, 2011 9:01:20 am PDT #14332 of 28289
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I have to pop in to say that I'm reading Dracula and the Twilight series at the same time, a state which is pretty baffling to my little brane. Hee.
Laga - Apr 10, 2011 9:02:32 am PDT #14333 of 28289
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Maybe Dracula will eat Bella.
sumi - Apr 10, 2011 9:12:27 am PDT #14334 of 28289
Art Crawl!!!
Maybe.
Barb - Apr 10, 2011 9:21:51 am PDT #14335 of 28289
“Not dead yet!”
Maybe Dracula will eat Bella.
One can but hope.
Also, anyone who enjoys Hemingway or knowing of him, should pick up THE PARIS WIFE by Paula McClain. It's a novel told from the POV of Hadley Richardson, Hemingway's first wife and chronicles their lives from their first meeting until their divorce. Beautiful story.
Consuela - Apr 10, 2011 9:22:04 am PDT #14336 of 28289
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm vastly amused by a voicemail I got from my niece yesterday. She's in college, and she called to say that she overheard a girl at school saying something about "--and they all fight to the death in this big arena!"--and so my niece ran up to her and asked if they were talking about The Hunger Games and they were, and they squeed for a few minutes and my niece learned about the movie, and before she even got back to her dorm she called me to tell me about it.
... I have another geek in the family! And she doesn't even know! *grins*
-t - Apr 10, 2011 9:22:55 am PDT #14337 of 28289
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I've just pre-ordered an e-copy of The Pale King. I was debating whether to get it in a hardcopy or not, as the physical bigness of Infinite Jest was a not insignificant aspect of the experience of reading it for me.
Ginger - Apr 10, 2011 1:45:41 pm PDT #14338 of 28289
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Interview with Suzanne Collins: [link]