Has anyone read The Lake of Dead Languages, by Carol Goodman?
My best friend foisted it off on me, because she really liked it. It's kind of a ripoff of The Secret History, but it was a nice snowed-in weekend read.
Angel: You're lying. Gwen: I'm fibbing. It's lying, only classier.
'Just Rewards (2)'
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."
Steph L. - Jan 26, 2004 1:37:56 pm PST #623 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Daisy Jane - Jan 26, 2004 3:43:07 pm PST #624 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
If you are a crime nonfiction fan, or you read stuff like "Nickel and Dimed", you have to read The Corner right now.
Tell me more erika. I'm like one of those corner preachers spreading the word when it comes to my love of "Nickel and Dimed."
erikaj - Jan 26, 2004 5:46:29 pm PST #625 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
You'd probably love "The Corner" Heather. It's about one family that lives by a drug corner in West Baltimore, and why they make the choices they make and who gets into and out of the drug life(I was completely stunned by who got clean and who didn't...at the beginning it looks very different.) And also it talks about where the drug war went wrong, and how really poor people have different expectations. And a lot of the vivid details I loved about "A Year on The Killing Streets" like what people really do in crack houses. And what a burn bag is(That's when you sell baking soda or something as drugs.VERY hazardous to your health.) My proof that Simon and Burns know whereof they speak: Graffiti in W. Balmer Social Services elevator: "All of y'all that work here can just go fuck yourselves." Trust me...that person is a poet and he doesn't know it.
Daisy Jane - Jan 26, 2004 6:03:16 pm PST #626 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Is it non fiction or fictionalized?
erikaj - Jan 27, 2004 5:05:43 am PST #627 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Non-fiction...some of the dialogue got reconstructed.David Simon used to be a Baltimore Sun crime reporter, and Edward Burns is ex-cop turned schoolteacher(there's a guy loves doing stuff the hard way.) They hung around and followed people, basically.
deborah grabien - Jan 27, 2004 2:58:50 pm PST #628 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
OK, I'm in the "gloaty-gloat-gloat" privileged corner.
I just got the e-MS of Roz Kaveney's new non-fiction, Waking into Dream: Readings in Science Fiction Film.
Volans - Jan 28, 2004 3:33:09 am PST #629 of 10002
move out and draw fire
(jealous of deb)
Random question: I need a make and model of a car I might rent if I go to London. What's a stereotypical British rental car?
Megan E. - Jan 28, 2004 5:45:22 am PST #630 of 10002
I just finished reading Cornelia Funke's new book Inkheart and enjoyed it emensely - even more than her other book The Thief Lord. A few pages into the book I got that feeling that you get when you read a familiar, well loved book, so I know that I will be rereading this on often (so I may have to buy it!) Some reviewers felt it was too long but I can't imagine what could have been cut.
§ ita § - Jan 28, 2004 6:56:51 am PST #631 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just finished The Golden Compass, and I'm pissed I hadn't read this before. I'm still a little puzzled by some of the technicalities of the world he's built, but I love his cranky short-sighted big-hearted heroine, the instability of the world around her, and he had me really tense for the last couple chapters.
beth b - Jan 28, 2004 7:06:16 am PST #632 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I just put Inkheart on my reserve list at the library yesterday