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.
We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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."
-t - Jun 08, 2007 4:06:48 pm PDT #2806 of 28432
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Laga - Jun 08, 2007 6:00:17 pm PDT #2807 of 28432
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 28432
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 28432
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 28432
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 28432
"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 28432
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 28432
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
Laga - Jun 09, 2007 7:21:15 am PDT #2814 of 28432
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Villa Incognito is his latest novel. He also has a collection of short stories out now (I looked it up.)
JZ - Jun 09, 2007 8:02:51 am PDT #2815 of 28432
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Mark Helprin, Elizabeth Bishop, Flannery O'Connor, with a side of occasional Chesterton, especially The Man Who Was Thursday, of which I shall never tire.