Because I must be contrary to all you say:
I really liked The Shipping News, once I got over my irritation at her choppy writing style.
I tried reading Sophie's World twice, but finally gave up.
But if the world doesn't end, I'm gonna need a note.
Cordelia ,'Potential'
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."
Alicia K - Sep 08, 2004 1:58:51 pm PDT #5763 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Katerina Bee - Sep 08, 2004 2:09:03 pm PDT #5764 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
(stands next to Alicia in TSN corner). I enjoyed this book though I found the style jarringly choppy. Worldview bleak, hero whiny and lost. Newfoundland interesting; features fried baloney.
Atropa - Sep 08, 2004 3:05:09 pm PDT #5765 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I want to go buy Jonathan Strange RIGHT NOW. Now now now! However, I don't have spending money for it RIGHT NOW, and I'm going to try and hold off until early October so I can read it on the plane when we go to Vienna.
But I still want to read it right now.
Volans - Sep 09, 2004 12:24:26 pm PDT #5766 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I'm over in the Teppy, P-C, Anne W., etc corner about TSN. Took a couple running jumps at it, wanted the main character to kill himself by page 10.
I'm slogging through Walden again, since it's the 150th anniv. and all. This time it's making me laugh (Thoreau is such an odd duck, and a helluva curmudgeon who can turn a phrase) and cry (so much hasn't changed, and so much has worsened).
Daisy Jane - Sep 09, 2004 12:55:05 pm PDT #5767 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I'm slogging through Walden again, since it's the 150th anniv. and all. This time it's making me laugh (Thoreau is such an odd duck, and a helluva curmudgeon who can turn a phrase) and cry (so much hasn't changed, and so much has worsened).
Ohhh. I think I'll cheat though and read "The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail" I'm reading for the Book Club, one on my own which is a collection of essays called "The Muse is Always Half-Naked in New Orleans," and I'm not sure I can handle another heavy-weight.
erikaj - Sep 09, 2004 2:09:56 pm PDT #5768 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I've never read it. I'm a bad liberal...the line to punish me forms on the right.
DavidS - Sep 09, 2004 2:11:38 pm PDT #5769 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've never read it. I'm a bad liberal...the line to punish me forms on the right.
jostles with ita and Ple to get to the front of the line...
Betsy HP - Sep 09, 2004 2:13:30 pm PDT #5770 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Hey, Andrej Codrescu (spelled wrong, I'm sure) is fun to read.
Speaking of which, I opened a page of Brave New World online for my daughter to see and wound up reading the whole thing right then and there. Compelling little piece of propaganda, that.
But why did I never notice how strongly Bernard is coded as Jewish? (Although there are, of course, no Jews in Ford's world.)
erikaj - Sep 09, 2004 2:17:52 pm PDT #5771 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Somehow, that is monumentally gratifying , Hecubus. Seriously, am I missing something not being acquainted with it? Besides being a hippie cliche, that is?
Hil R. - Sep 09, 2004 2:23:13 pm PDT #5772 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
But why did I never notice how strongly Bernard is coded as Jewish? (Although there are, of course, no Jews in Ford's world.)
Huh. I never noticed that, either. (Of course, last time I read that, I was 16. I might want to take a look at it again.)
I've been meaning to reread Walden, too. Last weekend, I went to Walden Pond with my family, and I was startled at how little of the book I could remember.