Ain't it the truth, Bunk.
Mal: Well said. Wasn't that well said, Zoe? Zoe: Had a kind poetry to it, sir.
'Out Of Gas'
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."
Scrappy - Apr 18, 2006 11:04:24 am PDT #352 of 28061
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
erikaj - Apr 18, 2006 11:06:11 am PDT #353 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
yeah, wrod. It's all in the (letters) game.
Betsy HP - Apr 20, 2006 7:20:46 am PDT #354 of 28061
If I only had a brain...
I have the Crusie/dude book. I am having a hard time reading fiction at the moment, so factor that in. It has all the patented Crusie snark, but I'm not finding myself caring about the characters as much as I usually do. YMMV.
Aims - Apr 22, 2006 6:19:11 am PDT #355 of 28061
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Just finished A Million Little Pieces this morning before I came to work. Despite the controversy, it was a fabulous book. I really liked his style of telling "his story".
Gus - Apr 22, 2006 3:08:55 pm PDT #356 of 28061
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
At some point the Pulitzer people will become aware of blogs and enter into the present era.
erikaj - Apr 22, 2006 6:34:30 pm PDT #357 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
I have a friend who would swear that would be the novel's death. He has a pedantic streak, though.
Gus - Apr 22, 2006 6:38:41 pm PDT #358 of 28061
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
If the novel's time has come, so be it.
Typo Boy - Apr 22, 2006 6:48:47 pm PDT #359 of 28061
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
The novel was not the death of the play. Blogs have their strengths and weaknesses. But they are written in fragments. If the novel dies, something other than blogs will kill it, possibly short attention spans. Mind you there have always been books that could have been blogs if written at the right time. Almost everything Erma Bombeck ever wrote could have been delivered in blog form without losing any continuity. The Federalist papers could have been a blog. Rather than killing the novel, what the blog is doing is reviving the essay.
Gus - Apr 22, 2006 7:08:55 pm PDT #360 of 28061
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
For me, this is about mediation. The Pulitzer people are the ultimate in mediators.
You are dumb. We is smart. Listen unto us. We are of Pulitzer, therefore wise.
That aside ... the fragmentary, immiediate nature of blogs is the thing that should attract the Pulizer commitee. So what if it is harder to find the good stuff among all the me-too and other chaff? That is what the Pulitizer is for, after all.
erikaj - Apr 22, 2006 7:16:37 pm PDT #361 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
I'm not saying he's right