What Hec Said.Although, should I have a daughter, I probably wouldn't want her to get into Portnoy at thirteen. It probably fucked me up. But I've had a lifelong button for Brainy Jewish Guys. But nobody ever wanted me for a Monkey. Yet.
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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 - Feb 01, 2005 9:35:34 am PST #6970 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Megan E. - Feb 01, 2005 9:51:19 am PST #6971 of 10002
He's also very thoughtful about politics and history, but not in a dogmatic way.
this is very true of his latest book. At the end of it he actually adds a true chronology about the lives of some of the key politicians and news makers of the 1940s. This brings some reality back to the reader.
Nutty - Feb 01, 2005 10:43:53 am PST #6972 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I guess I was under the impression that reading Philip Roth was like watching an un-funny Woody Allen movie. If that's not the case, mebbe he is worth trying. (One does get tired of middle-aged men worrying about their sex appeal, moreso when they can fantasize themselves supermodel girlfriends.)
JZ - Feb 01, 2005 11:00:58 am PST #6973 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Nutty, who gave you this woefully wrong-headed impression of Roth? 'Cause Ima have to hunt that person down and engage in a little corrrective literary criticism by way of pummeling and ass-thumping.
Of course, I say this as someone who even liked The Breast (okay, maybe not liked, but I thought it was desperately peculiar and never boring), but still.
erikaj - Feb 01, 2005 11:01:44 am PST #6974 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
"What? And he should kiss his mother with that mouth?" Some of it is, but not exclusively. JZ, that was Philip Roth's Alien Cock Tree Story, you should forgive the expression. But mostly, wrod. Dude, no wonder you liked my fic. They're all Philip Roth impressions.
-t - Feb 01, 2005 11:02:46 am PST #6975 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I've had Nutty's impression since reading Portnoy's Complaint. But I have trouble with humor, sometimes.
erikaj - Feb 01, 2005 11:09:30 am PST #6976 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I still want to write my Portnoy's Complaint. What? That is true of him, but that's not all there is.(It's part of what I like, but I'm a perv.) "Goodbye Columbus" is all literary and heartwarming, kind of. Socially conscious, too. And the later work is not quite as "ooh, sex!"
DavidS - Feb 01, 2005 12:32:35 pm PST #6977 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I guess I was under the impression that reading Philip Roth was like watching an un-funny Woody Allen movie. If that's not the case, mebbe he is worth trying. (One does get tired of middle-aged men worrying about their sex appeal, moreso when they can fantasize themselves supermodel girlfriends.)
C'mon, his baseball novel is like Rabelais set in the thirties. With a dash of Marx Brothers.
erikaj - Feb 01, 2005 12:58:15 pm PST #6978 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Wow, that's a perfect description. So impressed.
Scrappy - Feb 01, 2005 1:02:52 pm PST #6979 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Hec is good like that.