Gris, have you seen that Salon is doing a week of articles leading up to the Tonys? It's nice for me, since I'm not able to see the nominated musicals.
We have to see the chimp playing hockey! That's hilarious! The ice is so slippery, and, and monkeys are all irrational. We have to see this!
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
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."
Dana - Jun 05, 2007 9:05:43 am PDT #2736 of 28590
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Steph L. - Jun 05, 2007 9:45:51 am PDT #2737 of 28590
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm in the middle of The Vor Game right now. The one shortcoming is not enough Cordelia.
erikaj - Jun 05, 2007 9:51:02 am PDT #2738 of 28590
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Don't know, Corwood, dude...you're in Texas now. Does she need killin'?
Hayden - Jun 05, 2007 9:54:49 am PDT #2739 of 28590
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Does she need killin'?
Oh, I don't know about that, but I'd approach any personal meeting with McCarthy with extreme caution.
erikaj - Jun 05, 2007 10:13:23 am PDT #2740 of 28590
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
keep one chambered, huh? I have to confess I've never gotten through one of his books.
Hayden - Jun 05, 2007 11:25:17 am PDT #2741 of 28590
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Oh, I love his work. He's like a feral Faulkner.
hippocampus - Jun 05, 2007 11:50:08 am PDT #2742 of 28590
not your mom's socks.
Raq - you are totally on to something. I would have posted earlier, but things are nuts here. It's a tough read, but worth it. Going back and reading the first few chapters again helped. Where are you now?
Ink (the next one - really beautiful covers) is harder to focus through, seems a lot more scattered. And there are a lot of morality play bits that I'm having trouble with right now. I can't imagine what it took to write this.
Problem now is that I couldn't sleep one night, and Ink was too scattered... so I picked up China Mieville and now I've got a short story about feral alleys & streets (a really good story) all twined with the characters in Ink. Bad reader. No colophon.
eta: reads the word 'feral' in Corwood's post. blinks. You're right about him being a feral Faulkner - I'm just amazed that that word is having itself a mini-threadfest.
Volans - Jun 05, 2007 11:57:35 am PDT #2743 of 28590
move out and draw fire
Where are you now?
Almost done. I have like 6 pages to go, but the toddler has identified the competition and tries to kill the book every time I pick it up.
References I left out of my list include The Rule of Four and Gormenghast.
I love the idea of a feral Faulkner, but I suspect I would hate the experience.
erikaj - Jun 05, 2007 12:24:40 pm PDT #2744 of 28590
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Second that emotion, Raq. I expect that's why I don't stick it through. Wonder what the regular Oprah audience thinks about that(Not to slam them: Pre-Buffista, I was a pretty devoted Oprah viewer. IJS, though, that it used to be that relatability used to be a fairly strong part of Oprah's choices, and now ??)
Toddson - Jun 05, 2007 12:25:58 pm PDT #2745 of 28590
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
erika, have you ever read anything by Benjamin M. Schutz? I was reading an old one of his I picked up at a second-hand book sale and was thinking you'd like him.