True and poetic.
It makes me laugh at myself every time I think of Jesse's maxim because in the face of such wisdom I still instinctively rail, "Nuh uh! The shit I like is the BEST!"
And now my boy's in love. All hearts and flowers. But, doesn't it freak you out that she used to change your diapers? I mean, when you think about it, the first woman you boned is the closest thing you've ever had to a mother. Doing your mom and trying to kill your dad. Hm. There should be a play.
Angelus ,'Damage'
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."
DavidS - May 15, 2006 9:49:17 am PDT #490 of 28061
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hayden - May 15, 2006 9:55:31 am PDT #491 of 28061
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
My wife nearly broke my nose yesterday when we were arguing La Jetee vs. 12 Monkeys. I kept saying that La Jetee was clearly better than the Gilliam movie, trying to get her goat as much as everything with the leading law-talkin' stuff, but jeez, can you imagine being married to an asshole like me? She finally reached the point of "not funny anymore" about 5 minutes before I figured it out.
Nutty - May 15, 2006 9:56:21 am PDT #492 of 28061
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I read a fair amount of Irving in high school, all at once, and then stopped completely. I liked a fair amount of what he wrote (up to that point), but was never blown away by it or felt it had the kind of significance it ought to have to me.
Actually, although it's not what people usually mean when they say "beach reading," Irving is the kind of author I would read on a beach. He passes the time and has reasonably involving characters and themes, and I forget him entirely when I go home.
erikaj - May 15, 2006 10:04:47 am PDT #493 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Oh, I'm entirely prepared to accept totally being in a phase of looking for a drug deal or a fallen body every couple pages...Irving and I may get involved again once the smoke clears from all the fictional gage.
Steph L. - May 15, 2006 10:09:42 am PDT #494 of 28061
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I read a fair amount of Irving in high school, all at once, and then stopped completely.
Nutty is me. Now that I'm almost 20 years older than I was when I first read Irving, a lot of his writing strikes me as so so SO self-conscious, as though it has an undercurrent of "I *know* you're reading this -- isn't it clever and moving? Go on -- keep reading!"
I don't like my fiction to be more self-aware than I am.
This had me giggling madly: Feedback From James Joyce's Submission of Ulysses to His Creative-Writing Workshop.
Hayden - May 15, 2006 10:11:52 am PDT #495 of 28061
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
This had me giggling madly
AWESOME.
Steph L. - May 15, 2006 10:15:20 am PDT #496 of 28061
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Corwood, you were the first person I thought of when I read it.
"Caught some allusions to The Odyssey. Nice."
"Think you accidentally stapled in something from your playwriting workshop for Ch. 15."
"Typo: last word capitalized."
::snerkity::
Jessica - May 15, 2006 10:27:24 am PDT #497 of 28061
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
BWAH:
Remember last week after workshop, when we got trashed on Guinness and came up with the ludicrous idea of a 700-page novel that puns every few words on the name of a river? Maybe there's something to that.
erikaj - May 15, 2006 10:28:37 am PDT #498 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
You should also read the one that's about the fiction prompts.
P.M. Marc - May 15, 2006 10:31:58 am PDT #499 of 28061
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
"Snotgreen" = hyphenated.
Man, coffee hurts when it goes up the nose.