After. I also loved Half Asleep etc.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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 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
§ 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
Laga - Jun 09, 2007 7:21:15 am PDT #2814 of 28176
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 28176
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.
Hayden - Jun 09, 2007 8:03:59 am PDT #2816 of 28176
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Big Bill Faulkner, Doubtin' Tommy Pynchon, and Vlad "The Impaler" Nabokov for me.
Hayden - Jun 09, 2007 8:07:25 am PDT #2817 of 28176
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Mmmmm, Elizabeth Bishop.
I stared and stared
and victory filled up
the little rented boat,
from the pool of bilge
where oil had spread a rainbow
around the rusted engine
to the bailer rusted orange,
the sun-cracked thwarts,
the oarlocks on their strings,
the gunnels--until everything
was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!
And I let the fish go.