I've not read it. Yet.
Don't I get a cookie?
Spike ,'Never Leave Me'
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 1:08:43 pm PDT #2872 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Steph L. - May 26, 2004 1:10:11 pm PDT #2873 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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?
I read it, and it seemed forced in the same way that Crazy For You felt forced.
Polter-Cow - May 26, 2004 1:34:45 pm PDT #2874 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Me, I'm currently reading Snow Crash
Oooh, fun! After that, you can graduate to Cryptonomicon.
§ ita § - May 26, 2004 1:37:11 pm PDT #2875 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
After that, you can graduate to Cryptonomicon.
I've read it.
His books do not stick in my mind. Character names, if that. The odd visual.
flea - May 26, 2004 2:18:44 pm PDT #2876 of 10002
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I babysat for Annie Dillard's daughter when I was in high school. What a little hellion. Like, climb out of bed, go down the back stairs and GO OUTSIDE at 10 pm hellion. (Age 5).
Nope, I got nuthin'.
Katerina Bee - May 26, 2004 3:00:16 pm PDT #2877 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Flea, dude, what kind of Mom was Annie Dillard? Was she flaky, did she pay on time, was her house a mess, or was she a hippie Jane Goodall saint??? Tell tell tell.
DavidS - May 26, 2004 4:12:42 pm PDT #2878 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Picked up Annie Dillard's The Living at a library book sale last night, too, for all of a dime. Anyone read it? I had a friend awhile back who kept telling me to try her, especially Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, but I hadn't up till now.
I think her fiction is middling, but that she's one of the best non-fiction writers of the last fifty years. Love Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek and An American Childhood particularly.
flea - May 26, 2004 4:27:36 pm PDT #2879 of 10002
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I only sat for Rosie, the Dillard sprog, once, I think. I got the gig in a roundabout way - I think it was a dinner party that a family I sat for were also attending, at Dillard's neighbors, and they drove me over and home. She lived right near Wesleyan (this was in the late 1980s) in a biggish house that memory is painting as sort of a 1910s foursquare, Decidedly messy. Middle-class, absent-minded professor-y - books and wineglasses and coffee cups and napkins and crumbs on the table. I remember a hunt for the checkbook when it came time to pay me. Dillard struck me as vague and distracted, and seemed very laissez-faire in her child-rearing - Rosie ran a bit wild, and was also wily and well practiced in talking her way into things. I tried to read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek following the exerience, but couldn't get into it at 17 - too slow. Should try again now that I am slower.
Consuela - May 26, 2004 6:27:38 pm PDT #2880 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I loved An American Childhood and really enjoyed The Living. Haven't been able to get into Pilgrim, despite having owned it for years.
Jessica - May 27, 2004 5:17:31 am PDT #2881 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
His books do not stick in my mind. Character names, if that. The odd visual.
Snow Crash and Zodiac stuck in my mind. Cryptonomicon, nsm.