wrod.ETA: Somebody tell me what's on the Entertainment film in Infinite Jest so I can appease my Bayliss nature and still go on with my life without flagellating over this 1000 pages again? Please? There's chocolate in it.
I don't really have a security blanket... unless you count Mr. Pointy.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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."
erikaj - Oct 03, 2004 3:23:15 pm PDT #6089 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
JoeCrow - Oct 03, 2004 5:20:18 pm PDT #6090 of 10002
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
I bought the LKH for my beloved wife, and the Terry Pratchett for both of us. She seems to be reading for the porn, and says she was disappointed that there wasn't more porn in the last Merry Gentry book. I've tried to explain about how there's actual porn out there that is much cheaper than first run hard cover books, and is better written to boot, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
So, I read Pratchett and bragged about how good it was and told she couldn't read it until she finishes the Anita thing. So there.
Holli - Oct 03, 2004 6:27:56 pm PDT #6091 of 10002
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
Oh, so how *was* the Pratchett? I was going to try to restrain myself until the paperback came out, but should I just give in and buy the hardcover like I did for the last two?
Betsy HP - Oct 03, 2004 7:38:23 pm PDT #6092 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
So far I'm eeeh. We'll see if it grows on me, but I haven't laughed out loud yet.
victor infante - Oct 03, 2004 8:10:09 pm PDT #6093 of 10002
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
We talking "Hatful of Sky?" It's not as funny as some of the others, but it's a good little story. The treatment of Granny Weatherax toward the end is marvelous, and there's at least one genuinely scary moment.
JoeCrow - Oct 03, 2004 8:22:41 pm PDT #6094 of 10002
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
No, the new one, "Going Postal". I dug it. Pratchett seems to get sharper and sharper with his characters every time. There were some soft bits in the plot itself, but overall, a stellar piece of work. No surprise there.
Jim - Oct 03, 2004 11:22:58 pm PDT #6095 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Somebody tell me what's on the Entertainment film in Infinite Jest so I can appease my Bayliss nature and still go on with my life without flagellating over this 1000 pages again?
SPOILER
It never says. It can't, cos the only people who know are either Himself (dead, possibly a ghost), the viewers (catatonic) and arguably Hal (who after he sees the Entertainment is incapable of communicating with anyone, in my reading, although other people think he never saw it and freaked out because the mold he ate as a boy metastatized into DMZ). Mario might well know, but he's not telling.
Joelle/Madame Psychosis remembers being in it dressed as a heavily pregnant bride rocking the camera back and forth and apologising, while Himself fiddled with some kind of Annular lenses.
erikaj - Oct 04, 2004 5:32:51 am PDT #6096 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
- Thank* you...months of my life that I'm gonna be begging for as I lie dying...well, never mind. I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid, at least.I'm through trying to Impress with my reading matter, though.
hun_e - Oct 07, 2004 8:11:27 pm PDT #6097 of 10002
Meanwhile, back at the Hall of Justice...
It's been awhile since the last post so I thought I'd re-break the ice by mentioning that Sophie Kinsella's newest book in the Shopaholic series, Shopaholic and Sister is out. And I didn't even know it was coming out! Stopped by the bookstore today and there it was... woo hoo! Finally something to spend that birthday gift certificate on.
Aims - Oct 07, 2004 8:18:56 pm PDT #6098 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I just read Confessions and Manhattan. What did you think of them?