Spike/Harm ,'Help'
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."
I didn't read literature for porn. I read porn!
Speaking of The Happy Hooker, I shoplifted The Happy Hooker Goes Around the World In A Daze when I was 12, which was about her hitting sex clubs worldwide. I had that damn thang memorized, and remember staying up late to catch her on The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder.
I can never read DHL again after a memorable seminar in which we noticed his total obsession with the physical sensations of wearing women's clothes. Ever since I read his books and all I see is garter garter garter.
I pulled Anais Nin off my mother's bookshelves when I was a teenager, having vaguely heard of the name but I didn't know where. I remember reading her stories and in many cases being like, "I bet that isn't physically possible."
I am reading I Married a Dead Man by Cornell Woolrich right now. It's the exact same plot as teh Ricki Lake movie Mrs. Winterbourne, except not nice at all! It's hilarious in its hysteria!
I'm not much of a DHL fan, either. He seems kinda like Hesse to me, all full of (as Angus said) self-seriousness and revelations that aren't.
Here's Charles Taylor's response in Salon to that NYT Andrew Solomon article about the death of literacy.
Interesting. I liked these points he makes:
"To hear him [Solomon] tell it, no one ever picks up a trashy book to kill time, no one ever gets around to that classic he always meant to read and finds that it bores him silly."
"Does Solomon even realize how exhausting a life of 'nothing but the highest' moments sounds?"
I like DH Lawrence.
Singularity Sky wasn't quite as good as I was hoping, but by the end, I was engaged enough to be wanting the next book in paperback. There's kind of two novels going on at once -- a very clunky war story, and a really fun interplanetary spy novel. The worldbuilding isn't paced terribly well, but by the time it's finished, it's not a bad world. The Festival is a terrifically neat idea, enough so that I'm willing to forgive the less than stellar writing. (And it's a first novel, so I'm expecting him to get better.) The political structure of the universe reminded me a bit of James Alan Gardner's League of Peoplesverse.
I like DH Lawrence.
Me too, particularly Women in Love and Sons and Lovers. Lawrence's poetry is worth reading, too.
Ever since I read his books and all I see is garter garter garter.
I'm now earwormed with a weird version of the badger song...
I'm now earwormed with a weird version of the badger song...
"Snake, it's a snake" takes on a whole new meaning.
I just read an odd book..."The End of the Empire" by Alexis Gilliland.
It was...weird. SF, sort of in the vein of the "classic" SF authors, Asimov and Bradbury and whatnot...but not quite as good. It felt more like the author had some sort of neat SF-ish ideas and hastily constructed a bullshit justification to throw them in. And the protagonist was...like, Fletch as an interplanetary gestapo officer with a heart of gold.
Just...odd.