My friend just sent me Ayun Halliday's No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late for Christmas, and I am all excited to read it.
Sounds like a book that Gus could have written.
Mal: You are very much lacking in imagination. Zoe: I imagine that's so, sir.
'Out Of Gas'
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."
Frankenbuddha - Jan 16, 2004 9:26:10 am PST #583 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
deborah grabien - Jan 16, 2004 10:25:11 am PST #584 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Nutty - Jan 16, 2004 10:50:59 am PST #585 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Reasons not to have a face lift.
science fiction seems more about following a character rather than exploring an idea in metaphor. Any ideas why?
I'm not sure I 100% agree with the premise, but I will say, the 'idea' SF from the 50s also tends -- from my exposire to the "greats" of that era -- to have been written more drily than an advanced calculus book. So, if the New Wave is responsible for the shift in writing ability, in addition to the different trend in subject matter, then I can do nothing but thank the New Wave.
Actually, you know, the 50s weren't so much with the metaphor, were they? Just exploring the idea. Exactly what kinds of examples are you talking about, when you say "idea in metaphor" vs. character-based stories?
erikaj - Jan 16, 2004 11:22:33 am PST #586 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
God! Also like something she would put in her books.(swallowing inappropriate laughter) Will Philip Roth die of priapism following a viagra accident?
Strix - Jan 16, 2004 11:50:08 am PST #587 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Snerk on the PR.
It's a weirdly ironic death. Not laughing at it, but it is ironic.
erikaj - Jan 16, 2004 12:05:13 pm PST #588 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I really don't mean anything by it. It is kind of art imitates life, though.
deborah grabien - Jan 16, 2004 12:10:07 pm PST #589 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
It's creepy, I think - I sympathise with anyone dying of anaphylaxis, since I am at all times a candidate for that, but, well, ironic, yes indeed.
Gus - Jan 16, 2004 1:08:07 pm PST #590 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Sounds like a book that Gus could have written.
Well sounds like something Gus should have read.
Too sad about Olivia Goldsmith. "First Wives Club" was a much better book than the movie. Yes, the irony .. also sad.
Exactly what kinds of examples are you talking about, when you say "idea in metaphor" vs. character-based stories?
Yes, please. This question.
Betsy HP - Jan 16, 2004 1:09:28 pm PST #591 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
The part that horrifies me is that one of the obits said she was gearing up for two book releases this spring. Which makes me think she was getting the face-lift as a tune-up for her book tour.
A friend of a friend took Phen-Fen (say that three times fast) before going on a book tour to promote her first book. She got the fatal side effect. Pfeh.
deborah grabien - Jan 16, 2004 1:15:28 pm PST #592 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
And just think, all I do is shoot myself up with human interferon once a week.