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.
Oh, yeah, baby, it's snakalicious in here.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
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."
Laga - Jun 08, 2007 9:30:49 pm PDT #2810 of 28176
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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.
JZ - Jun 09, 2007 8:21:35 am PDT #2818 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.
Oh, Corwood! That's the first poem that ever made me sit up and gasp, "So that's what a poem is!" Not that I hadn't liked poetry before, because I had, very much... but I can remember being nine or ten, in the car on a road trip to Tahoe, coming across it for the millionth time in a big Golden Treasury of Poetry or some such, and getting absolutely stoned on it. The homely fish, his eyes all backed and packed, his beard of hooks and snapped-off lines... oh.
Scrappy - Jun 09, 2007 8:22:16 am PDT #2819 of 28176
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Ooh, Nabokov. Maybe I'll bump Heyer off the list. If we are doing read the most, I might have to put SJ Perelman on there. I would also have to say Laurie Colwin.