I love Frost. We had a wonderful debate in my Honors English class in high school about the one about gathering apples for cider. All sorts of arguments about symbolism and predestination and such.
I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Connie Neil - Oct 17, 2008 8:17:46 am PDT #7787 of 28414
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Barb - Oct 17, 2008 9:10:19 am PDT #7788 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
The thing, that for me, I find most interesting about that article is that I can relate to both writing/artistic styles described. Both the honing of craft and open-ended exploration and research that Galenson attributes to the late bloomer both appeal and make sense to me as much as the "conceptual" tag he applies to the prodigies of starting with a clear idea and executing it.
Not that I'm anything approaching a genius, mind you. I can just relate to both approaches and see how I've used both in writing.
I'm not sure whether this is a good thing or if it simply means I'm screwed.
Glamcookie - Oct 17, 2008 9:41:59 am PDT #7789 of 28414
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Barb, if you still have them, I'd love the following for my juvie hall girls:
- Sister Chicas- Lisa Alvarado, Ann Hagman Cardinal, Jane Alberdeston Coralin (Latina YA)
- Boys That Bite- Mari Mancusi (Para YA)
Barb - Oct 17, 2008 9:42:56 am PDT #7790 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
GC, they're all yours. Did you want mine as well since they're YA?
Glamcookie - Oct 17, 2008 10:07:02 am PDT #7791 of 28414
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Oh, hell yes!!! Totally!
DavidS - Oct 17, 2008 12:36:34 pm PDT #7792 of 28414
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jilli, have you read Tanith Lee's The Secret Books of Paradys?
I glanced at it in the bookstore and the first story was like an elegant marriage of NIN's video for "Perfect Drug" and the Paris section of Interview With A Vampire.
Atropa - Oct 17, 2008 12:43:45 pm PDT #7793 of 28414
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Jilli, have you read Tanith Lee's The Secret Books of Paradys
Yep! They're gorgeous. Her Blood Opera series is still my favorite, but the Paradys books are lovely and overwrought in the best sort of way.
DavidS - Oct 17, 2008 12:55:42 pm PDT #7794 of 28414
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Then you'll like this tidbit from her website:
August 2008
The Blood Opera pours on
A 4th novel? OK, not quite yet, but a definite probable in the not so far off future - more when I have it.
Atropa - Oct 17, 2008 1:29:23 pm PDT #7795 of 28414
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The Blood Opera pours on
A 4th novel? OK, not quite yet, but a definite probable in the not so far off future - more when I have it.
Yesssssss. I have been WAITING for the 4th book for ages.
Fay - Oct 17, 2008 6:11:52 pm PDT #7796 of 28414
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Just finished reading The Graveyard Book.
I would say something incisive and telling and reviewish, but mostly I'm in that word-drenched afterglow, where I just want to pet the covers and run lazy fingers up and down the spine. Lovely book.