Top three favorite writers off the top of my head... John Irving, Tom Robbins, Douglas Adams.
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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Laga - Jun 08, 2007 2:22:11 pm PDT #2804 of 28176
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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.
Emily - Jun 08, 2007 9:48:15 pm PDT #2811 of 28176
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Huh. I did not like Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, and never even got around to trying Fierce Invalids.
Kate P. - Jun 09, 2007 6:21:15 am PDT #2812 of 28176
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I liked *both* Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas and Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, but wasn't crazy about Villa Incognito. I think that's his latest one, right?
Scrappy - Jun 09, 2007 7:21:01 am PDT #2813 of 28176
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Anne Tyler, Georgette Heyer, Mark Helprin