Most of those who loved the Black Swan seemed to love it as "good trashy fun". Basically they adored the over-the-top badness of it. Which does not really contradict the people who hated the Black Swan. Seems to be no dispute that it is trash. The only question is your type of trash or not. And the answer to that question is a matter of "Your goat may vary"
Yesterday, my life's like, 'Uh-oh, pop quiz!' Today it's like, 'rain of toads.'
Xander ,'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."
Typo Boy - Dec 29, 2013 7:16:37 pm PST #21793 of 28370
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Kate P. - Dec 30, 2013 4:33:58 am PST #21794 of 28370
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Whoops, I should have posted that second question in Movies. Sorry! Anyway, I just found out that one scene in American Hustle was filmed in my hometown, so I think I have to go see it now.
Consuela - Dec 30, 2013 3:40:11 pm PST #21795 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I was clearing out my bookshelf, making room, and found my copy of Molly Gloss' The Hearts of Horses. So I reread it.
And it's just as wonderful as the first time through. What a remarkable, flexible, writer she is. I'm sad to see that she seems to have published no novels since then (2008), although I think she's got some stories out.
Ginger - Jan 03, 2014 9:26:31 am PST #21796 of 28370
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Russell Banks comes across as a pompous twit in this NYT interview: [link]
Particularly laughable:
And how would you describe the kinds of books you steer clear of?
Anything described by the author or publisher as fantasy, which to me says, “Don’t worry, Reader, Death will be absent here.” In his brief introduction to “Slow Learner,” Thomas Pynchon says he takes serious writing to be that in which Death is present. I agree.
Consuela - Jan 03, 2014 9:28:18 am PST #21797 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
... nobody dies in fantasy novels? Seriously?
Steph L. - Jan 03, 2014 9:29:19 am PST #21798 of 28370
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Aw, man, I've been reading them wrong.
juliana - Jan 03, 2014 9:30:22 am PST #21799 of 28370
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
... nobody dies in fantasy novels? Seriously?
G.R.R.M. has been doin' it wrong this whole time....
Calli - Jan 03, 2014 9:31:00 am PST #21800 of 28370
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
G.R.R. Martin just started chuckling, and he doesn't know why.
Jessica - Jan 03, 2014 9:34:17 am PST #21801 of 28370
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Who is Russell Banks and why should I care what he thinks?
hippocampus - Jan 03, 2014 9:59:36 am PST #21802 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
Here is me. Laughing. Laughing. Oh Russell Banks. You moron.