And now I'm wondering what else is literary cilantro.
Unless it's just me - Thomas Pyncheon. I read The Crying of Lot 49 after we name-checked it here. I read the whole thing, but it was mostly Not Enough Huh? In the World for me.
Hands! Hands in new places!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
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."
EpicTangent - Jul 10, 2012 3:04:17 pm PDT #19296 of 28343
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Amy - Jul 10, 2012 3:22:20 pm PDT #19297 of 28343
Because books.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
That's a good example, although it wasn't quite cilantro for me -- there was definitely a lot of excellent writing and story in there, but after a while the extraneous stuff made me feel like he was jerking off in front of me, and laughing about it. I never did finish it.
Brilliant title, though.
erikaj - Jul 10, 2012 3:30:53 pm PDT #19298 of 28343
Always Anti-fascist!
The title is one of my favorite things about it. But I'm really fond of that one, if not wowed like the first time.(Bloggers kind of...write like that) TB, interesting thoughts.
Gris - Jul 10, 2012 3:31:30 pm PDT #19299 of 28343
Hey. New board.
I think all of Vonnegut is cilantro. At least, everybody seems to love him, and I find him unbearable. Slaughterhouse, Galapogos, that one with the weird Ice, the one where every male character has a parenthetical penis size... disliked them all. Weird that I finished them all, I know, but I liked the stories! Great ideas, painful-to-me execution. I felt much the same about Catch-22, only that one I never bothered to finish.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 10, 2012 3:37:18 pm PDT #19300 of 28343
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think if you like Ulysses, you will also like Virginia Woolf's The Waves.
I have a love of Thomas Hardy, and I seem to remember everyone else hates him. I can barely abide Hemingway (The Old an and the Sea alomost killed me. See also The Big Two Hearted River) and Steinbeck (that darned The Pearl). Of course, those were also books I had to read in school, where I think they mistook terse and short for easy to read and therefore OK for 7th graders.
Dana - Jul 10, 2012 3:37:58 pm PDT #19301 of 28343
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Thomas Hardy! t hisssss
Sophia Brooks - Jul 10, 2012 3:40:47 pm PDT #19302 of 28343
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Actually, come to think of it, I hated many books we read in school-- I think I only liked The Great Gatsby, Silas Marner, and The Diary of Anne Frank. I have no idea what lead me to be an English Lit major after all those terribly boring books, and it was a little frustrating in high school that I was such a big reader and didn't like anything.
Amy - Jul 10, 2012 3:41:53 pm PDT #19303 of 28343
Because books.
Oh, I also love Hardy! Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of my favorites.
Dana - Jul 10, 2012 3:42:43 pm PDT #19304 of 28343
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I was assigned Pride and Prejudice in AP English and blew it off, did terrible on the test. And then, of course, I loved it. That was not one of my smarter decisions.
Connie Neil - Jul 10, 2012 3:44:02 pm PDT #19305 of 28343
brillig
God bless Mr. Berryhill, who had Lord of the Rings as extra credit and The Hobbit as a required book. And whose Advanced English Lit course was really "How much Shakespeare can we cram into a schoolyear?"