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.
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.
I just read
Confessions
and
Manhattan.
What did you think of them?
I flipped through that
Shopaholic
book and felt like I was reading an "I Love Lucy" episode. I hate "I Love Lucy." The infantalized woman who insists on lying to everyone so she doesn't get yelled at for doing dumb things. "Oh, I can't confess that all my credit cards are maxed out and I agreed to have Hubby do something without asking him first."
I lack the chicklit gene. And compulsive shopping sounds as boring as Dan Quayle.
I enjoyed them Aimee. Have you read
Ties the Knot?
Personally I relate to the character in her overspending ways (though I'm not nearly as bad)...
Are they fluff? Absolutely.
But sometimes that's nice...
plus I like the ways that Becky gets out of her scrapes.
She's like Bridget Jones, except obsessed with money instead of weight...
What about you?
Have you read Ties the Knot?
I've "knot" yet.
t slaps knee and guffaws mightily
I loved the first one but
Manhattan
irritated me until she finally got a clue. I overspend as well. I am lucky in that I only have one $400 credit card. I have been finding that I am enjoying British novels more and more than their American counterparts. Jane Green is a new favorite.
I enjoyed the Shopaholic books despite the fact that I almost always wanted to slap Becky. Hard.
I did, however, enjoy Kinsella's Can You Keep a Secret, without the urge for slapping.
I'm with Alicia on the shopaholic books, though I couldn't read Ties the Knot because the plot description on the back sounded entirely too painful to read. Can you Keep a Secret is still quite fluffy, but all-around better.
Yeah... I get the urge to slap her too... that's the only part of the books that I'm not that keen on... BTW I finished
& Sister
today... it was cute, as expected
