I couldn't read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ( and me an environmentalist!), but I loved An American Childhood and thought The Living was quite impressive. I don't recall being bogged down by the prose in either of those two.
Elliot: I thought I said discreet. Gwen: What, do you see nipple?
'Just Rewards (2)'
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."
Consuela - Jun 07, 2007 9:23:14 pm PDT #2801 of 28176
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
hippocampus - Jun 08, 2007 1:04:06 am PDT #2802 of 28176
not your mom's socks.
It feels less stained glass, more Bedazzler.
!!! That.
I like Dillard. I don't like thinking 'what an interesting and arresting verb choice for that sentence'. Especially not again and again. What makes teaching and critiquing easier doesn't always make for an enjoyable or enlightening read.
Top 3 favorite writers' writers, anyone? (if you're like me, it depends on the day...) Today, they are probably going to be:
- George Oppen - Gerard Manley Hopkins - Muriel Rukeyser
Katerina Bee - Jun 08, 2007 2:18:44 pm PDT #2803 of 28176
Herding cats for fun
I never did manage to finish Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. And it seemed like the sort of book I would have liked, when I tried to read it in the seventies, the eighties, and once more somewhere around 2000. My eyes would inevitably glaze over and my mind would wander away all befuddled, as if they were being asked to decipher some dense legalese at the bottom of a contract with Satan.
So I gave up. It wasn't as if my semester grade depended upon finishing PaTC.
Laga - Jun 08, 2007 2:22:11 pm PDT #2804 of 28176
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Top three favorite writers off the top of my head... John Irving, Tom Robbins, Douglas Adams.
erikaj - Jun 08, 2007 3:59:21 pm PDT #2805 of 28176
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, I have so many... Tom Robbins is one, though. I think it explains a lot about my nature that Robbins is at one end and David Simon's at the other.
-t - Jun 08, 2007 4:06:48 pm PDT #2806 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Sometimes I reallly like Robbins and sometimes I really don't. Haven't read his latest because I am afraid of not liking it - that Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates really turned me off.
Laga - Jun 08, 2007 6:00:17 pm PDT #2807 of 28176
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
was that before or after Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas? ('cause I loved that one)
-t - Jun 08, 2007 7:22:57 pm PDT #2808 of 28176
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
After. I also loved Half Asleep etc.
§ ita § - Jun 08, 2007 8:47:30 pm PDT #2809 of 28176
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The seasons flopping was the only quote...well, I made it through one of the others with the sense and my wits still intact. But I wasn't sure why. The flopping? I thought the quote as a whole was humourous, and I can see a point to describing the seasons as flopping. Without context I don't know if it was her point, but still. It had more of a reason for existing than the others.
Laga - Jun 08, 2007 9:30:49 pm PDT #2810 of 28176
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
yeah Fierce Invalids is the last one I read too. I recall enjoying it but that it didn't quite scratch my Tom Robbins itch. Now I'm getting a similar sort of satisfaction from Carl Hiaasen.