Anybody here ever read any Colm Toibin?
I've read (and loved) The Blackwater Lightship. But I don't understand the question about underlying notions.
I tell you I have this theory. It goes where, you're the one who's not my sister. Cuz mom adopted you from a shoe box full of baby howler monkeys, and never told you cuz it could hurt your delicate baby feelings.
Dawn ,'Selfless'
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."
Jim - May 04, 2005 9:51:52 pm PDT #7608 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Nutty - May 05, 2005 4:27:08 am PDT #7609 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I'm just curious about what Toibin's shtick is. I'm almost halfway through the novel now, and I don't have any idea where he's headed.
Well, I mean, Henry James is not going to whip out a maxim gun and mow down English society, but, I got the book as a gift and don't have any context for the author. Which is disconcerting.
Jim - May 05, 2005 9:51:18 am PDT #7610 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Well, blackwater Lightship is a beautifully written and observed study of the dynamics and emotions of an Irish family over a particularly stressful week. not muc happens, but his dissection of character is incredible. Toibin is one of Ireland's top literary writers, I think; he's got a few Booker noms, and many people think the master was robbed this year.
Nutty - May 06, 2005 7:13:43 am PDT #7611 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Thanks, Jim. Further along in the novel, I'm coming to see that it's primarily about "this life experience got transmogrified into that character in a novel," and also about how to keep one's mouth shut when one is being invited to participate in rudeness. Of which much, and much gossip about Oscar Wilde's trial.
Also, Oliver Wendell Holmes and his war trauma.
Katerina Bee - May 06, 2005 11:11:39 am PDT #7612 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Nooo! Don’t take away the arduer Privaledges ! Hee hee hee. Comedy gold! I can just see LKH and Anne Rice sitting together and complaining about their ungrateful fans.
Perhaps dissatisfied fans should change tactics to exploit her darned contrary nature, and start complaining about the well-thought-out plots and believable characterizations that they hope she'll drop.
Wrod.
Betsy HP - May 07, 2005 6:08:14 pm PDT #7613 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Apparently Anne Rice's newest project is a life of Jesus.
DebetEsse - May 07, 2005 6:17:15 pm PDT #7614 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Oh, dear lord, no.
Betsy HP - May 07, 2005 6:19:31 pm PDT #7615 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Yes. [link]
brenda m - May 07, 2005 6:24:40 pm PDT #7616 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Pretty sure that's one of the signs of the end times.
DebetEsse - May 07, 2005 6:26:30 pm PDT #7617 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I'm just going to pretend that I never read that. Otherwise I'll be imagining what she'll be writing about Jesus at age 7...in complete seriousness...