hayden, if you weren't already married, I'd be down on one knee proposing right now.
Edit: and not just because I'd own half of that framed poem that way.
Aw yeah! I loved that other Doty poem, too. First time I'd read it.
Does anybody mind if I pass out?
Willow ,'Beneath You'
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."
Hayden - Jul 06, 2004 5:19:03 am PDT #4651 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Kate P. - Jul 06, 2004 5:22:06 am PDT #4652 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Yeah, it was The Powerbook that I really didn't like. Give The Passion a try, if you haven't already. I remember being just blown away by it.
Lilty Cash - Jul 06, 2004 5:23:00 am PDT #4653 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Consider it added to my reading list!
Jim - Jul 06, 2004 5:34:47 am PDT #4654 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Winterson's debut, Oranges are not the only fruit is wonderful too.
Polter-Cow - Jul 06, 2004 5:39:38 am PDT #4655 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Announcement: I am twelve chapters into Wuthering Heights.
Analysis: Geez, Catherine's a brat.
Lilty Cash - Jul 06, 2004 5:40:58 am PDT #4656 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Analysis: Geez, Catherine's a brat.
Yep. But Heathcliff is a drama queen, so it works out.
I'm so glad you're reading it!
Dana - Jul 06, 2004 5:44:03 am PDT #4657 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I have skipped 600 posts.
Plei, I am very fond of you, but you're a nutcase. Believe me, I get Hardy's points. I got it in the first few chapters of Jude. I resent his need to further make his points by JUMPING UP AND DOWN ON THEM REPEATEDLY.
Plus, simply based on having read Jude, I could predict nearly the entire plot of Mayor of Casterbridge. Any time you think someone's spouse is dead, they're not, so they can come back into the character's life and torment them. Any time there's a situation where someone's livelihood depends on the outcome of a certain event, it's not going to go well. Rinse, repeat, slit your wrists.
Re: Wuthering Heights, I'd never read it until last semester, and I was pretty disappointed. This is the epic love story? These two people? Sorry, I prefer my romantic hero not to be quite so psychotic.
Jen - Jul 06, 2004 5:45:24 am PDT #4658 of 10002
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
I've tried a few more of hers, and I probably need to read them more closely, but nothing has pulled me in quite the same way as Written on the Body.
Lilty is me. Written on the Body made me weep--I mean, any book that starts with the first line "Why is the measure of love loss?" is a phenomenon. I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about some of the language in there.
The rest of her stuff is good but not great.
Lilty Cash - Jul 06, 2004 5:59:29 am PDT #4659 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Written on the Body made me weep--I mean, any book that starts with the first line "Why is the measure of love loss?" is a phenomenon.
Exactly. Reading that book is such a sensual experience. It's so damn.....lush.
§ ita § - Jul 06, 2004 6:34:11 am PDT #4660 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I prefer my romantic hero not to be quite so psychotic.
You want to be careful using that word, Dana.