Um, the one about the pond, or whatever it was.
corrected:
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
We're proud to say that the Class of '99 has the lowest mortality rate of any graduating class in Sunnydale history.
Jonathan ,'Touched'
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."
DavidS - Jun 07, 2007 8:55:08 am PDT #2772 of 28176
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Connie Neil - Jun 07, 2007 8:57:04 am PDT #2773 of 28176
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I regret to have to say I dislike Annie Dillard's prose style enough that I wasn't able to make it through that famous book she wrote.
Oh, good, I was sitting here thinking, "Oh, dear, there goes my literary sophistication, that's some fairly overwrought stuff."
flea - Jun 07, 2007 8:59:16 am PDT #2774 of 28176
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. (I just went and looked it up.)
I am more an E. B. White kind of prose style fan.
Amy - Jun 07, 2007 9:04:24 am PDT #2775 of 28176
Because books.
Yeah, Annie Dillard is a little ... well, overwrought is as good a word as any. For me, anyway.
Connie Neil - Jun 07, 2007 9:04:33 am PDT #2776 of 28176
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Roger Zelazny would go off into flights of twisting imagery, but he used it to describe a specific event/process/proceeding, and it was easy to skip if I wasn't in the mood for a verbal acid trip.
DavidS - Jun 07, 2007 9:08:23 am PDT #2777 of 28176
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I like the way she wroughts!
DavidS - Jun 07, 2007 9:10:32 am PDT #2778 of 28176
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Though admittedly "prose stylist" is a kind of back handed compliment comparable to "writer's writer."
But I am not the type of reader who insists that prose be transparent, a clean glass pane. I often prefer the stained glass window approach.
flea - Jun 07, 2007 9:20:15 am PDT #2779 of 28176
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This surprises us not at all.
Ginger - Jun 07, 2007 9:35:34 am PDT #2780 of 28176
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My favorite Annie Dillard quote:
I don’t do housework. Life’s too short and I’m too much of a Puritan. If you want to take a year to write a book, you have to take that year, or the year will take you by the hair and pull you toward the grave. Let the grass die. I let almost all my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There are all kinds of ways to live. You can take your choice. You can keep a tidy house, and when St. Peter asks you what you did with your life, you can say, I kept a tidy house, I made my own cheese balls.
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2007 9:36:44 am PDT #2781 of 28176
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh, good, I was sitting here thinking, "Oh, dear, there goes my literary sophistication, that's some fairly overwrought stuff."
I'm glad it wasn't just me. I mean, I do like a poetic turn of phrase every now and then, but I don't think I like to be bombarded with it. And it's not really the way I write, I guess. My style seems to be more about sentence structure and the arrangement of words. If I have a style.
But I like Ginger's Dillard quote.