I think that Ragtime also did the famous-people thing well, but that book was really ... I'm not sure of the word I'm looking for. "Stylized" comes to mind, but it's not exactly what I mean. It's like, it wasn't just random famous people inserted into the ongoing plot; the famous people were part of what held the book together.
You want to meet the real me now?
Mal ,'War Stories'
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."
Hil R. - Oct 15, 2008 7:01:35 pm PDT #7771 of 28414
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Typo Boy - Oct 16, 2008 11:10:35 am PDT #7772 of 28414
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.
Yeah, Creation has a lot in common with Ragtime. It is *about* makers of history and expounders of new ideas, and the relations between them. Along with Vidal's quirky theory about where this intellectual revolution came from.
Barb - Oct 16, 2008 3:05:34 pm PDT #7773 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
beth b - Oct 16, 2008 6:32:00 pm PDT #7774 of 28414
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
That was great
I just sent it to a billion people - I know tey will really enjoy it
Amy - Oct 16, 2008 7:03:15 pm PDT #7775 of 28414
Because books.
plot: A device, the lack of which denotes seriousness on the part of writers.
BWAH. The whole thing was dead on.
Barb - Oct 17, 2008 2:32:43 am PDT #7776 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
clandestine science fiction novel: A work set in the future that receives a strong reception from the literary world as long as no one mentions that it is, in fact, science fiction; for example, The Road, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
I think that was my favorite.
Tom Scola - Oct 17, 2008 2:36:25 am PDT #7777 of 28414
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
deconstructionism: A moderately successful attempt by the French to avenge the loss of Paris as the global center of literature.
Bwah!
Toddson - Oct 17, 2008 4:08:45 am PDT #7778 of 28414
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Funny. Another, a review from Mrs. Giggles of a fantasy/erotic ... novel? "... is like the pornographic movie version of Walt Disney's Pocahontas, only with added talking animals - many of them, all of them thankfully incapable of singing - as well as and various engorged body parts doing things that will never be done in a Walt Disney cartoon."
Polter-Cow - Oct 17, 2008 4:38:12 am PDT #7779 of 28414
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Kathy A - Oct 17, 2008 6:17:17 am PDT #7780 of 28414
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Yesterday's Jeopardy had a category of Unfinished Hugo Award Winning Titles--you had to fill in the blank. I missed a few of the "easier" clues (Asimov's "A ____ with Rama," for example), but got the two at the bottom of the category: Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must ____", which no one knew, and Miller's "A ____ for Liebowitz", which is one of my favorite books ever and which I was happy to see the champ get correct.