Paul Bettany is hot ?!?!??!?!
Oh, well. All the more Russell Crowe for me.
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
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."
Betsy HP - Jul 01, 2004 8:09:40 am PDT #3774 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
erikaj - Jul 01, 2004 8:10:23 am PDT #3775 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm pretty sure my favorite genres are thought to be male-dominated, although women are all over the shamus business(private eyes) in books and in life. In fact, while I was researching that Thing I Might Write someday, somebody wrote that women PI businesses are the fastest growing segment in the industry right now.(And I'm sure you don't care.)
deborah grabien - Jul 01, 2004 8:10:32 am PDT #3776 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I still have scarring from when my English Lit profs shot laser beams at me from their eyes on hearing that I didn't particularly care for Chaucer OR Conrad very much
See, I love Chaucer, but that's as much as a history major as it is for his writing; he was John of Gaunt's brother in law.
Conrad? Not so much. Really, really not so much.
Daisy Jane - Jul 01, 2004 8:11:18 am PDT #3777 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I adore Shakespeare so very much. Portia's speech to Brutus about being his wife and sharing his secrets and burdens still speaks to me. Almost every day a quote will pop into my head for one reason or another.
However, I don't think you must like him. I hate hate hate Faulkner and Stienbeck. And I adore the more bizarre Tenessee Williams like Camino Real, while I find Streetcar and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, just really good.
Aims - Jul 01, 2004 8:11:47 am PDT #3778 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ok, now I gotta ask it....
Who else thinks "Madame Bovary" was a giant piece of crap and wanted to slap whatsherface around by page 4?
Dana - Jul 01, 2004 8:11:53 am PDT #3779 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Susan W. - Jul 01, 2004 8:12:08 am PDT #3780 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Heh. I had to drag DH kicking and screaming to Master & Commander, because to him if it has pretty men in pretty clothes doing adventurous things, it's a chick flick. Though he didn't make the same argument about PotC or LotR, so he's not entirely consistent. And I may be able to get him to see King Arthur with me, because Keira Knightley cancels out the chick flick factor.
Steph L. - Jul 01, 2004 8:13:11 am PDT #3781 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I adore the more bizarre Tenessee Williams like Camino Real,
Heh. Suddenly, Last Summer. Homosexuality and cannbalism, baby. And a nun!
Jessica - Jul 01, 2004 8:14:32 am PDT #3782 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
In most cases, I'm completely un-pinged by gender issues when I read. It's just a big old blind spot.
The one exception is that I do tend to subconsciously judge female POVs as "accurate" or not, which I don't do if the narrator is male. But I can't ever think of a time when I've given up on a book or movie because there were no women in it.
Betsy HP - Jul 01, 2004 8:14:44 am PDT #3783 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Who else thinks "Madame Bovary" was a giant piece of crap and wanted to slap whatsherface around by page 4?
Yo! Represent!
I can't appreciate the prose style on account of not reading French, and I wanted to slap (A) Mme. B and (B) her entire milieu and social restrants silly.