Tell Me Lies is kinda effed up.
I like Crazy For You, becuase it was sorta creepy. The "fiance who wouldn't leave" was a certfiable NUTBAR.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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."
Aims - Jan 08, 2004 12:04:46 pm PST #454 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
deborah grabien - Jan 08, 2004 5:24:12 pm PST #455 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I honestly don't think Anne Rice is worthy to clean erika's shoes with half her overinflated, device-heavy, repetitive, unedited manuscripts.
And Ms. Rice, besides needing a clue and a good editor, does not deserve one of our Anne's sweaters. Which (rubbing hands gleefully) I happen to possess, and wanted in Seattle, believe me.
erikaj - Jan 08, 2004 5:47:35 pm PST #456 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
(picturing this) ME: And make sure you don't miss a spot. These are suede. Use the prologue...modern readers don't like 'em anyway. RICE: They don't?! ME: Not when they're long like that they don't. Trust me.
Strix - Jan 09, 2004 6:57:18 am PST #457 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I bought "Girl with a Pearl Earring" last night and read it, and didn't love it. It was fine, but not particularly engaging.
I don't understand all the hype and glowing reviews.Sometimes, I wonder how MUCH book reviewers actually read -- I mean, how many books they plow through in a week. Sometimes, it seems to me that they are overly lavish with their praise on books that aren't that amazing, if you've read a goodly amount of books.
It wasn't bad certainly, and I think it will be a lovely movie. But the book? Left me wanting more detail.
deborah grabien - Jan 09, 2004 8:40:25 am PST #458 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Erin, I had that reaction to Chevalier the first time through. But then I found myself imagining bits she'd left out, and that left me wishing I'd written the thing, and that made me go back and read it again, and I found that my own head had put things in the second time around - I ended up feeling almost proprietarial about it.
Megan E. - Jan 11, 2004 4:55:57 am PST #459 of 10002
I just finished Old School by Tobias Wolff. It was good though I found the narrator's voice to be emotionless and quite cold. I'm also wondering if I missed something important with regard to the dean who quits and then returns a year later.
Anyone else read this? It seemed to receive a lot of acclaim and criticism.
Strix - Jan 12, 2004 8:59:51 am PST #460 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I'll probably end up reading it again, down the line. Prolly after the movie, which I DO think will be nice. I think the very visual aspects of the book might make it more effective as a movie than as a book. To me, at least. And hey, Colin Firth!!
You know what I'd like? I'd love to read another book by Liza Dalby -- she wrote "The Tale of Muraski" and I really liked it, and have read it several times. I liked it better than Golden's "Memoirs of a Geisha" but both books put me on a geisha nonfic kick last summer that was cool.
Maysa - Jan 12, 2004 4:17:03 pm PST #461 of 10002
Anyone else read this? It seemed to receive a lot of acclaim and criticism.
I haven't read that yet, but I usually love Tobias Wolff's short stories. Have you read anything else by him? I like his stuff because it's usually about something unlike a lot of short fiction. He's good at blending funny and sad at the same time - there's a great story of his about a priest and a few nuns who wind up staying in a Vegas hotel. My favorite Wolff story I read about 5 years ago in the New Yorker and it was about a doomed high school romance (which sounds hackneyed but it was incredible). I think it was called "The Kiss".
Megan E. - Jan 12, 2004 4:23:19 pm PST #462 of 10002
Have you read anything else by him?
This was my first Wolff exposure. Have any of his short stories been published in a collection?
Maysa - Jan 12, 2004 4:29:57 pm PST #463 of 10002
I think his first collection is Back in the World and he has a more recent one, The Night in Question. Also, if you go here you can listen to his story, "In the Garden of the North American Martyrs".
ETA: Actually, it looks like they have several of his stories at that sight (plus a lot of other cool stuff).