Sort of like Mickey Spillane, only less self-consciously hard-boiled. Anyway, less self-aware.
Yeah, ew. I think I'll forget it. Thanks.
Doesn't winter seem more like archiving season?
Willow ,'Lessons'
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."
Jesse - Apr 22, 2004 5:14:01 am PDT #2341 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
Betsy HP - Apr 22, 2004 7:12:15 am PDT #2346 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
And you know what? I STILL read them. I read James Bond. In my adolescence, I read Fu Manchu. I can overlook a lot. Shame on me.
Consuela - Apr 22, 2004 7:13:20 am PDT #2347 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I read all the James Bond novels as a teen, same way I read all the Agatha Christie mysteries. I recall them being dated, but don't remember much else, except bogglement at how different they were from the movies.
Jesse - Apr 22, 2004 7:13:31 am PDT #2348 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse, isn't "Live and Let Die" the one that obsesses about the "Chigroes", who are Chinese/Negro mulattoes? Ew.
Ew. As far as I got, it was all about Observing The Negro In His Native Environment. (I.e, Harlem) Lots of "dialect," and "Negresses" and whatnot.
Nutty - Apr 22, 2004 7:00:50 pm PDT #2349 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Dr. No is probably the one Betsy's thinking of. Anyway, I'm pretty sure I never read Live and Let Die, and I remember the whole strange thing about the Chigroes. Then again, I also remember the extremely casual comment in one of those books about how emasculated American men are because they let their wives drive them places (presumably, to work).
You're not a REAL MAN until you've left your wife at home to walk to the grocery store.
beth b - Apr 22, 2004 9:03:12 pm PDT #2350 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Real women get groceries delivered