I 'm with you - the first one was so much tighter. The second one had too much going on - so I never even knew if there were rules. The third one was given to me as an xmas present, so I will read ( someday ) and report.
That's my girl, large and in-charge. Okay, teensy-weensy and in charge.
Gunn ,'Just Rewards (2)'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
beth b - Apr 21, 2004 7:38:56 pm PDT #2336 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Angus G - Apr 22, 2004 3:56:19 am PDT #2337 of 10002
Roguish Laird
I like The Handmaid's Tale too. I also think it's a lot less far-fetched now than it may have seemed a few years ago.
Jesse - Apr 22, 2004 4:23:03 am PDT #2338 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, no one has the dish on Fleming for me?
juliana - Apr 22, 2004 4:30:26 am PDT #2339 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I like The Handmaid's Tale too. I also think it's a lot less far-fetched now than it may have seemed a few years ago.
Yes and yes. There's an interview with Atwood somewhere where she talks about she had to mentally stretch to set that kind of society in (the remains of) the U.S. (since she was writing it a couple decades ago), and how frightening it is to her that she may have been more accurate than she knew. Chilling stuff.
Nutty - Apr 22, 2004 5:09:14 am PDT #2340 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Jesse, I haven't read Live and Let Die, but I've read others, and Fleming is about as crude as you can pretty well imagine. He's sexually crude too, which always sort of flew in the face of the suave-good-guy image people take away from the movies. Sort of like Mickey Spillane, only less self-consciously hard-boiled. Anyway, less self-aware.
Also, there will be Bond-torture before the novel ends. Guaranteed.
Jesse - Apr 22, 2004 5:14:01 am PDT #2341 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sort of like Mickey Spillane, only less self-consciously hard-boiled. Anyway, less self-aware.
Yeah, ew. I think I'll forget it. Thanks.
Jess M. - Apr 22, 2004 6:57:47 am PDT #2342 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
Well of Lost Plots, the third book in the Fforde series, was my favorite by far.
I started What Was She Thinking: Notes on a Scandal last night. It's based on the Mary Kay LaTorneau case (teacher has an affair with a student). I have to look up what review made me think this was a worthwhile read. So far (60 pages in or so) the author just seems really self-congratulatory and show-offy. It's distracting from the plot.
Betsy HP - Apr 22, 2004 7:05:10 am PDT #2343 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Jesse, isn't "Live and Let Die" the one that obsesses about the "Chigroes", who are Chinese/Negro mulattoes? Ew. Maybe that was in Dr. No...
Fred Pete - Apr 22, 2004 7:10:29 am PDT #2344 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Maybe that was in Dr. No...
That's my vague recollection. And Man with the Golden Gun had the "homosexuals can't whistle" bit.
Megan E. - Apr 22, 2004 7:12:05 am PDT #2345 of 10002
Well of Lost Plots, the third book in the Fforde series, was my favorite by far.
I bought this a while ago but haven't read it yet. I guess I should move it to the top of my TBR pile.