Oh! I love Kerfuffle Bunny! I think Ollie, the Stupidest Dog in the World, needs to be his sidekick.
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
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."
Pix - Jun 16, 2008 12:39:33 pm PDT #6253 of 28370
The status is NOT quo.
beth b - Jun 16, 2008 12:46:34 pm PDT #6254 of 28370
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
huh
I love that there is day dedicated to joyce , even though I don't love him. or even like him.
But I came to the conclusion - and really only recently - that what I like in movies and books is JOY . not happily ever after -- just JOY. (and yes it has to be said with all caps.)So lots of greats don't go there. Doesn't mean they aren't great, but I might not like them.
Ask me why my major in college was history with a minor in english...
Polter-Cow - Jun 16, 2008 12:48:00 pm PDT #6255 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
But I came to the conclusion - and really only recently - that what I like in movies and books is JOY . not happily ever after -- just JOY. (and yes it has to be said with all caps.)
So...JOYce?
amych - Jun 16, 2008 12:52:36 pm PDT #6256 of 28370
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
beth b - Jun 16, 2008 12:57:46 pm PDT #6257 of 28370
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Joyce -- couldn't tell you what he is talking about lot of times. DH can , but by his nature, he has a classic education. ( self taught mind of the curious and brilliant. we went to the same schools through high school). there is a music in Joyce that means I hear they rhythm and sound but not the meaning. and there were words in POA that bugged. So I never got far with him
Oddly , the English Patient was another one of those books. When I read it , I got lost in the language-- and kept forgetting the story. And I was co-leading a book discussion on it. To this day I still can't tell you if I like it or not -- and the big plot hole that people found, I have no idea if it was really there
Polter-Cow - Jun 16, 2008 12:58:56 pm PDT #6258 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
there were words in POA that bugged
Joyce wrote Prisoner of Azkaban ?
Oh, wait. Babytuckoo saw a moocow.
beth b - Jun 16, 2008 1:02:19 pm PDT #6259 of 28370
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
you got it. personal prejudice.( are there any other kind?) Hate things like moocow
Polter-Cow - Jun 16, 2008 1:04:03 pm PDT #6260 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Stay away from Salman Rushdie, then.
beth b - Jun 16, 2008 1:07:55 pm PDT #6261 of 28370
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
ok, thanks
I even wince when they use the words "coco moo" on Kim Possible.
Connie Neil - Jun 16, 2008 1:10:12 pm PDT #6262 of 28370
brillig
what I like in movies and books is JOY
Something that makes it worthwhile to go slogging through the existential hell and angst. If existence is just endless suffering and quiet desperation, with not one bright spot, why bother?
This is an honest question: What is the appeal of bleakness? Is it a "there but for the grace of God go I" comparison? Is the art just that good and you can step back and admire how it's put together? When the story is good, I get pulled in to the characters, and I've seen too much bleak to find dark stories--entertaining? diverting? What intellectual or emotional taste is satisfied?
We studied Tolstoy's (?) "Day in the Life of Ivan Illych" in college, and the professor said it ended with Ivan's life being a failure, where I saw that he did feel some sense of fulfillment. I'm not sure whether my approach to these things is vastly different from others or not.