I hate the way the"Da Vinci Code" guy writes. His people aren't people...just action figures. Yecch.(And I might be jealous, too.) Faking It is my favorite Crusie.
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'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."
erikaj - May 26, 2004 12:17:24 pm PDT #2857 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
ArcaneJill - May 26, 2004 12:21:02 pm PDT #2858 of 10002
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
Anyone read Strange Bedpersons? I read that after Crazy For You, and was less happy with it. I know she had publisher issues with it, so maybe that's why, but it seemed a little... forced, maybe, in parts? Although overall still a good read.
§ ita § - May 26, 2004 12:22:42 pm PDT #2859 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Those are the only Crusie I've read.
There will be more -- do I not need to send you Faking It, then?
erikaj, I hated what he wrote, and how he wrote it. Piker.
Katerina Bee - May 26, 2004 12:28:15 pm PDT #2860 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
During an epileptic seizure while visiting her ancestral home, sixteen-year-old Katie is transported back in time and mistaken for her great-great-great grandmother who also had epilepsy at a time when the disease was greatly misunderstood.
Oh yay, I'm the first back with the answer about AmyLiz's book: Why Have The Birds Stopped Singing by Zoa Sherburne.
I recall she wrote some cool books. Better go rummage through what Amazon says.
Edit: I feel as though I should really like reading Annie Dillard, but my attention keeps wandering off track with her.
Jesse - May 26, 2004 12:31:27 pm PDT #2861 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There will be more -- do I not need to send you Faking It, then?
Um, I was going to be rereading it.
ArcaneJill - May 26, 2004 12:32:25 pm PDT #2862 of 10002
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
His people aren't people...just action figures.
I had that feeling too, the whole time I was reading it! I kept thinking, "Don't they have family that would wonder where they are? Or, friends, even? A cat? Anything?"
§ ita § - May 26, 2004 12:33:06 pm PDT #2863 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was going to be rereading it.
She's all yours.
Me, I'm currently reading Snow Crash and Abide With Me. So far, pretty dissimilar. I expect this trend to continue.
erikaj - May 26, 2004 12:34:55 pm PDT #2864 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Wrod, ita. I fricking hate reading a best-seller and thinking "I can do better." So I went to Amazon and told them I would avoid his books like there's anthrax in the covers. Bitchy and satisfying.
Tam - May 26, 2004 12:43:06 pm PDT #2865 of 10002
"...Singing their heads off, protected by the holy ghosts, flying in from the ocean, driving with their eyes closed." - Patty Griffin "Florida"
I fricking hate reading a best-seller and thinking "I can do better." So I went to Amazon and told them I would avoid his books like there's anthrax in the covers. Bitchy and satisfying.
Woohoo!! I'm so sick of the book! Can we have a new best seller please, preferably something with an entertaining plot AND quality writing?
Margaret T. - May 26, 2004 12:43:23 pm PDT #2866 of 10002
Dedicated lurker
AmyLiz, my take on Dillard is that The Living is a mildly interesting novel, but Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is fascinating nonfiction if you are at all interested in bugs, plants, and other life.
Of course, it's been 20 and 30 years, respectively, since I read those books.