Winterson's debut, Oranges are not the only fruit is wonderful too.
I wanna hurt you, but I can't resist the sinister attraction of your cold and muscular body!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
Jim - Jul 06, 2004 5:34:47 am PDT #4654 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
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.
Dana - Jul 06, 2004 6:42:12 am PDT #4661 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I do? t addled and confused
But he is! He's fucking nuts.
§ ita § - Jul 06, 2004 6:49:12 am PDT #4662 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
(I got body-checked in Jossverse for using it -- the DSM IV got thrown at me and everything)
(Diagnosing non-existent people is HARD)
msbelle - Jul 06, 2004 6:51:51 am PDT #4663 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
ita, did you use the "it takes one to know one" agrument? You should be golden.
ION, I started reading Frederick Busch's The Night Inspector last night. I only got a few pages into it, but the language is taking my brain a moment to get used to.