In addition to stateless persons, 9/11 and Katrina set up perfect circumstances for your old persona to die and you become a new person.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Connie Neil - Nov 10, 2006 7:39:51 am PST #1540 of 28159
brillig
IAmNotReallyASpring - Nov 10, 2006 6:05:53 pm PST #1541 of 28159
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
Wide Sargasso Sea is excellent.
The BBC adapted that recently with one of my favourite young, British actors, Rafe Spall, as Edward. I think he's going to be in an adaptation of Dracula next.
Hayden - Nov 12, 2006 9:11:31 pm PST #1542 of 28159
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I saw where David asked me the other day at how my book is coming, and I didn't answer because it's been slow and sloggy lately, I've been behind on my schedule, and the topic has been depressing to consider.
Anyway, with mounting frustration at how dry my book has been thus far (and, hell, I don't even want to read it at this point), I decided to start rewriting it today with a faux-pompous tongue-in-cheek approach that I hope other people (such as, say, my editor, publisher, comrades, and player-haters) might also find fun. Continuum has been pretty lenient with the other writers, and I hope to enjoy some of that leniency. At the very least, I hope they don't sue me for smart-assery. What's your take, David?
Hayden - Nov 13, 2006 10:29:55 am PST #1543 of 28159
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Stolen from Maud Newton's blog.
Polter-Cow - Nov 13, 2006 11:03:36 am PST #1544 of 28159
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, I've seen that one. It's fun.
bon bon - Nov 13, 2006 11:55:11 am PST #1545 of 28159
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Did I post Bob Bob's take on that here some years ago? He adds "people person" to the sentence (a "buffalo buffalo buffalo").
Gris - Nov 13, 2006 3:23:43 pm PST #1546 of 28159
Hey. New board.
I read JE three times because it was the Academic Decathlon book.
Whoa! You were AD the year before me, I guess. I came in with Siddhartha and Remains of the Day my sophomore year. (Then My Antonia junior year, and Frankenstein senior year. Frankenstein is one of those books that should never, ever be read more than once or twice in a year, as I went from enjoying it to absolutely hating it.)
I read Jane Eyre when I was 12, as the only person who actually read in the middle school elective class called Reading for Pleasure. I loved it quite a lot, and just started re-reading it myself, actually. I also love Wuthering Heights, for very different reasons.
Polter-Cow - Nov 13, 2006 3:30:17 pm PST #1547 of 28159
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
You were AD the year before me, I guess. I came in with Siddhartha and Remains of the Day my sophomore year.
I did that year too. The Remains of the Day is my default favorite book. I read that one three times too and discovered something new each time. I medaled in Essay a few times, I think, both years. And I've got some good anecdotes about them, too. For my Jane Eyre essay, I don't even remember what my thesis was, but I made up the ending to this book called Pest Control that I'd picked up in a supermarket one time (I must have been comparing modern storytelling to old-time storytelling for some reason). I figured the judges wouldn't have read the book anyway.
The best, though, is that one afternoon, my AD advisor and I struck up a conversation about the different meanings of the title of The Remains of the Day. We were just talking after school; I don't remember why the topic came up. I'd never really thought about it, but we came up with some interesting ways to interpret the title.
Guess what one of the essay prompts at Regionals was?
Amy - Nov 13, 2006 3:34:48 pm PST #1548 of 28159
Because books.
I read Jane Eyre when I was 12, as the only person who actually read in the middle school elective class called Reading for Pleasure. I loved it quite a lot, and just started re-reading it myself, actually.
I forgot we were having this conversation. I adore Jane Eyre. I read it the first time at 12 or so, too -- my mom had gorgeous oversized hardcovers with woodcut illiustrations from childhood, of both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, which was one of the draws. (I didn't read Wuthering Heights until later, though.)
I never found Jane whiny. Given her circumstances, I loved the fact that she stood up to Aunt Georgina, and to the horrible teacher at Lowood. I think she was surprised by her feelings for Rochester, which would have been distressing at that time, again given their very different circumstances and the things that had been said about her all her life. Her arc may have been melodramatic (and yeah, I wanted to smack St. John, and thought that section of the book could have been cut by a lot) but she learned to love and respect herself by the end of the book.
I also read crit about it years ago that theorized Helen was the super ego, Jane the ego, and Bertha the id. It was in a book called Madwoman in the Attic, I believe. Really interesting.
Topic!Cindy - Nov 13, 2006 3:38:25 pm PST #1549 of 28159
What is even happening?
I read Jane Eyre, but it's been so long, I disremember anything but that she was a governess, and Mr. Rochester. I think it was beyond my understanding, when I read it.
The Remains of the Day is my default favorite book.Oh, gorgeous, gorgeous book. I was afraid to see the movie after I read it, because I loved the book, so.