I'm re-reading Connie Willis' Lincoln's Dreams. I'm just a couple of chapters in, so the magical realism drug-like effect it had on me when I first read it hasn't kicked in yet. Maybe it won't. I'm enjoying the details so far.
They should film that story and show it every Christmas.
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."
JohnSweden - Feb 13, 2007 11:10:41 am PST #1945 of 28197
I can't even.
Amy - Feb 13, 2007 11:16:26 am PST #1946 of 28197
Because books.
Try some Edith Wharton, if you're in a mood. I like her better than Henry James, except "The Turn of the Screw."
I adore Edith Wharton, but I've already read everything of hers. Well, almost anyway.
I'm not sure if I would ever be in the mood for The Odyssey.
Kathy A - Feb 13, 2007 11:19:55 am PST #1947 of 28197
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I first read The Odyssey in college, and it really is a riveting story, AmyLiz! Just like with Beowulf, you have to get the right translation, otherwise it can be a slog to get through. The Fagles is excellent--IIRC, he just published a translation of The Aeneid in the past few months.
Connie Neil - Feb 13, 2007 12:04:40 pm PST #1948 of 28197
brillig
I read The Odyssey for fun a few years ago. I had it on the bus one day and was snickering over some snark, and somebody in another seat asked me what class I was reading it for. They looked uneasy when I told them I was reading it for fun. The same kind of look when I was reading "Engines of Creation" on the bus. Freak the mundanes!
IAmNotReallyASpring - Feb 13, 2007 4:05:32 pm PST #1949 of 28197
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
Banville's The Sea
Corwood, have you read any of his other stuff? It's the same but more.
brenda m - Feb 13, 2007 4:19:12 pm PST #1950 of 28197
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I adore Edith Wharton, but I've already read everything of hers. Well, almost anyway.
Including the porn?
Amy - Feb 13, 2007 4:30:11 pm PST #1951 of 28197
Because books.
Including the porn?
The what now?!
brenda m - Feb 13, 2007 4:35:13 pm PST #1952 of 28197
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Dude, you haven't seen? Did you ever read the story Beatrice Palmato?
(Not where the porn is, but related)
Amy - Feb 13, 2007 4:42:49 pm PST #1953 of 28197
Because books.
(Not where the porn is, but related)
But ... but where *is* the porn? I mean, there *really* is porn?
::still boggling::
Do you know which story collection "Beatrice Palmato" is in?
brenda m - Feb 13, 2007 5:17:22 pm PST #1954 of 28197
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
There is really porn -
I can't find Palmato on the web, and I don't remember what collection it was in. I kind of hate to go further without linking. But.
Palmato: (warning - the acutal is so much better than my snapshot here)
It's a really kind of beautiful story about this girl who meets and marries the love of her life. They have a very nice life, but she's always a little neurotic. Years go by. They have a daughter.
Her family comes to visit. Her father kisses her daughter on the cheek. Beatrice freaks out and, the next morning, shoots herself in the head.
All of that is the public story.
Wharton (like, I imagine, a lot of writers,) wrote out scenes that were in the past and not a part of the story. A charatcter study, giving explanation about the actual story. So.
The porn will be in the next post.