Don't know if this helps, Gris, but reportedly Kafka used to laugh and laugh when he wrote his stories.
So...maybe a little more black humor and a little less empathy in that genre. (Genre here being....Mitteleuropa Black Fabulism?)
Buffy? I like that. That girl's so hot, she's buffy.
Forrest ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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 - Feb 09, 2008 6:34:48 pm PST #5040 of 28343
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Gris - Feb 09, 2008 7:07:59 pm PST #5041 of 28343
Hey. New board.
I laughed a good bit, actually. But the end was sad. I wanted it to be more Disney and less Brothers Grimm in terms of fantasy endings.
DavidS - Feb 09, 2008 7:26:09 pm PST #5042 of 28343
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I wanted it to be more Disney and less Brothers Grimm in terms of fantasy endings.
Kafka is going to shade more Grimm than Disney.
Read "The Hunger Artist."
beth b - Feb 09, 2008 8:59:17 pm PST #5043 of 28343
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
if it had a more Disney ending - the cockroach would have to find a mrs cockroach and they would have to sing a duet
erikaj - Feb 09, 2008 9:15:27 pm PST #5044 of 28343
Always Anti-fascist!
and have a dust mite for a cute sidekick.
Anne W. - Feb 10, 2008 3:53:08 am PST #5045 of 28343
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Coming in 2009 from Pixar...
Frankenbuddha - Feb 10, 2008 4:53:55 am PST #5046 of 28343
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life.
Of wait, already been done.
Jessica - Feb 10, 2008 5:40:30 am PST #5047 of 28343
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I just finished Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson. It doesn't even remotely compare to his Mars books, but it was a good enough read. (After not being able to make it 50 pages into Forty Signs of Rain, it was a relief to read something of his that made me want to finish the whole book.
Now I'm onto A Taste of Conquest which is very interesting and so far pretty well written.
Oh, and I'm also kind of reading The Brain-Dead Megaphone on the subway, which is terrific, but I think I might buy an audio version instead because my commute is getting too crowded these days to successfully hold a book.
meara - Feb 10, 2008 9:30:52 am PST #5048 of 28343
I'm not a morning person. This morning, after going to bed at 2AM, and tossing and turning a while after that, I woke up about 10:30, looked at the clock, and rolled over to go back to sleep.
At which point the phone rang. One of my friends calling. Not to invite me to breakfast or anything, no...she wanted to rave about a book I'd just loaned her that she just finished, and how she was so sad it ended because the characters were living in her head and could she borrow the next one in the series, and now she was going to read the other one I loaned her. It was so cute! I forgave her for calling early. :)
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 10, 2008 10:05:07 am PST #5049 of 28343
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
How do you think this applies to the gay community? Men, not chicks? (Not asking you to represent all gay dudes, BTW; just asking for thoughts, cause I'm interested in this line of thought, Matt.)
I think we face issues more similar to women's regarding what qualities are considered attractive and what people comment on. Looks are definitely the principal method of exchange in the dating game rather than security or "good provider" status, and I feel a LOT more scrutiny/pressure about my body and weight than my straight friends indicate themselves facing. Though I wouldn't say it's exactly the same, as there are only certain contexts in which I run into objectification rather than encountering it all the time from a huge proportion of the population. (I'm not being objectified by heterosexual guys, after all.)