Although it's probably not good for my sanity to argue with a dead guy about Darwin.
You prefer arguing with live people about Darwin? at least Melville won't answer back.
I'm not sure how old he is, but I heard him use the word 'newfangled' one time, so he's gotta be pretty far gone.
Dawn ,'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."
Toddson - May 27, 2011 5:18:01 am PDT #14952 of 28288
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Kathy A - May 27, 2011 5:49:26 am PDT #14953 of 28288
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Irish writers -- what's the name of the guy who wrote The Commitments? He wrote a trilogy of books about the same family, starting with that one and including The Van and another book, all of them made into films with Colin Meany.
Jesse - May 27, 2011 5:53:22 am PDT #14954 of 28288
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Roddy Doyle?
Kathy A - May 27, 2011 5:57:27 am PDT #14955 of 28288
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I think that's him.
Jessica - May 27, 2011 5:58:28 am PDT #14956 of 28288
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The endless non-fiction whale chapters are actually very funny. You have to imagine Ishmael saying everything in such a dry droll way that you're almost, but not quite, certain he is kidding.
Count me as another Catalog of Whales fan.
now I'm sitting here wondering why it took 6 years to release the next book when it sounds like it was already written 6 years ago
It was almost finished 6 years ago. "Almost" being, it seems, an entirely subjective term.
-t - May 27, 2011 6:13:49 am PDT #14957 of 28288
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The Snapper is the other movie in the trilogy, iirc.
sumi - May 27, 2011 6:29:37 am PDT #14958 of 28288
Art Crawl!!!
George R.R. Marting had alot of book 6 years ago but then he or the publisher decided it should be two books which meant, not just cutting off his writing where he was at but a bunch or rearranging and rewriting and addition of chapters. He talks about the process here - if you're interested.
ETA: I should say that there is information about what POV characters are in ADWD and which ones are not.
erikaj - May 27, 2011 9:08:17 am PDT #14959 of 28288
Always Anti-fascist!
I love Roddy Doyle, though. TB, good point. You know, I tried, with Moby Dick, cause y'all(and David Simon) list it as a favorite. I at least waded in, which is better than the whole looking-at-it-and-deciding it's boring thing I did before. Points for effort?
le nubian - May 27, 2011 9:42:30 am PDT #14960 of 28288
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Amy - May 27, 2011 10:26:21 am PDT #14961 of 28288
Because books.
There were a couple books publishers were really pushing on Tuesday at BEA, and three of them might be of interest:
Eoin Colfer's first adult novel, Plugged. (He is adorable, small, with bright white hair and a beautiful Irish speaking voice, by the way.)
The Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles, a first-time novelist who seems terribly Back Bay. It's about a young woman in 1938 Manhattan, and looks really good. Beautiful cover, too.
The Snow Child, by another first-timer, Eowyn (!) Ivey, a native Alaskan. It's set in 1920s Alaska, too.