Jen, they are!
Well that explains it then! At least she doesn't Mary Sue herself; a lot of the female lead characters in those stories have big, honking issues.
OK, one poetry rec list, coming up after I eat something and get organized.
You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Jen - Jul 02, 2004 12:21:20 pm PDT #4378 of 10002
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Consuela - Jul 02, 2004 12:21:27 pm PDT #4379 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
_Cowboys Are My Weakness_ by Pam Houston. I recommend this with hesitation, because honestly I can't ever get over the feeling that all the lead female characters are Pam Houston and that this isn't a work of fiction at all, but the writing is excellent.
Errr. I have to admit I finished that collection, and thought, "Hell, I could do that!" And all the stories were about the same person, and they were all about her relationships. I wanted adventures, but I think that's another collection.
The writing was good, but in my more arrogant moments I think I could do as well.
Recommendations for classic novels? Gah. The list is too long. In the last few years my classics club has read t digs out Pilot :
- The Way of All Flesh
- Wise Blood
- Swann's Way
- Tale of Two Cities
- Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Tristram Shandy
- Barchester Towers
- Manhattan Transfer
- How Green Was My Valley
- The Fire Next Time
- Heart of the Matter
- Angle of Repose
- The Optimist's Daughter
- An American Tragedy
- Ethan Frome
- Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Winesburg, Ohio
- The Magnificent Ambersons
- Howard's End
- Persuasion
- Dr. Zhivago
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- I, Claudius
- The Odyssey
- Candide
- Treasure Island
And more that I can't be bothered to dig out of my email archives. I really should compile a list, though.
Polter-Cow - Jul 02, 2004 12:23:31 pm PDT #4380 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Bridge of San Luis Rey
Oh! Oh! Love Thornton Wilder. Love this book. Thank you for reminding me about it.
Aims - Jul 02, 2004 12:24:03 pm PDT #4381 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
P-C, did you see the note I wrote yer mom yesterday?
Polter-Cow - Jul 02, 2004 12:25:54 pm PDT #4382 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I did, Little Miss Taxonomically-Challenged.
Aims - Jul 02, 2004 12:29:15 pm PDT #4383 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
That's Little Miss Can't Be Wrong, to you.
Polter-Cow - Jul 02, 2004 12:30:02 pm PDT #4384 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'd like to point out that my Scout story was meant to reflect on my idiocy as a ninth grade English student and not on the merits of the book in general.
P.M. Marc - Jul 02, 2004 12:36:10 pm PDT #4385 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Jilli, it occurs to me I have a spare Candide floating around somewhere. Well, I think it's spare. It's my copy. I may still have Dad's in my shelves. Regardless, I'll bring it with me tomorrow.
erikaj - Jul 02, 2004 12:39:59 pm PDT #4386 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
"Grapes of Wrath" My God, I am a lefty cliche. But not as much as this one: "Catcher in The Rye" Sue me. You won't get much...
Kat - Jul 02, 2004 12:40:17 pm PDT #4387 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I wanted adventures, but I think that's another collection.
A Little More About Me can be a little less about the relationships (though she uses adventure as a metaphore for exploring relationships) and it has more essays that were originally assignments for travel mags. You might like it better.
All the stories in Waltzing the Cat are about the same character. Though they are still individual stories.
Also, in Cowboys, it was one of the first collection of short stories where I noticed that the arrangement of the stories themselves had a narrative arc.
I t heart Pam Houston.