... no.
OK I love the two of her novels that I've read. This is Susan Sontag. That's a lot!
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Rebecca Lizard - Mar 07, 2003 6:14:39 pm PST #758 of 10001
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DavidS - Mar 07, 2003 6:16:47 pm PST #759 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
OK I love the two of her novels that I've read. This is Susan Sontag. That's a lot!
Are they early ones from the sixties? Or the Volcano lover one which is less experimental?
I'm a big fan of her essays. "Notes on Camp" and "Illness as Metaphor" are major works.
Steph L. - Mar 07, 2003 6:17:42 pm PST #760 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
She spoke at Miami when I was there, about "On Illness as Metaphor."
DavidS - Mar 07, 2003 6:21:04 pm PST #761 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oh! This reminds me that I was just gossiping with Teppy about this. Susan Sontag and Annie Leibovitz just broke up. I didn't even know they were lovers! Reported in the local paper.
deborah grabien - Mar 07, 2003 6:29:27 pm PST #762 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
OK, that doesn't surprise me - not the breakup part, which would suck because I am a huge sentimental sappy romantic and like couples (especially where at least one of the partners is a strong woman) to stay together, but the lovers part. I can see them together.
I love Bull Durham; brilliant flick. But I don't think Sontag's novels are crap, because how could I, whenI haven't read them? Talking to her while young killed the early desire to read her stuff; she was very flip and New York and that's very tooth-grindy. Should I try her now, after a passage of years? Opinions?
Steph L. - Mar 07, 2003 6:36:26 pm PST #763 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I love Bull Durham; brilliant flick.
Deb, I adore you more and more every day. That's my favorite movie.
deborah grabien - Mar 07, 2003 6:38:52 pm PST #764 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Deb, I adore you more and more every day. That's my favorite movie.
"Oh, my."
(having a Bull Durham bliss moment)
DavidS - Mar 07, 2003 6:39:50 pm PST #765 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I love Bull Durham; brilliant flick.
Thing is, she saw the movie and really liked it and got sucker punched by that line. Really hurt her feelings.
Curiously, in the original script he says Thomas Pynchon's novels are pretentious crap, which is a much less defensible position.
Steph L. - Mar 07, 2003 6:43:46 pm PST #766 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I suppose Bret Easton Ellis doesn't pre-date the movie? Damn. Because he would be perfect.
deborah grabien - Mar 07, 2003 6:43:54 pm PST #767 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
David, I can't believe she'd have taken that seriously. hell, the character starts that speech with "I believe Lee harvey Oswald acted alone!"
But Shelton should have warned her, definitely.