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.
Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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 28476
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 28476
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 28476
“Not dead yet!”
beth b - Oct 16, 2008 6:32:00 pm PDT #7774 of 28476
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 28476
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 28476
“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 28476
hwæt
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 28476
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 28476
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 28476
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.