Good article, Hec. I just totally stole a Flaubert quote "Lemony Snicket" offered as a tag.
Wesley: Perhaps the whole point of this experiment is hair. Gunn: I vote he's not in charge.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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."
Amy - Nov 09, 2005 10:04:59 am PST #9434 of 10002
Because books.
Kate P. - Nov 09, 2005 10:11:41 am PST #9435 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
erika, Lemony Snicket is sort of a peripheral character in the books, if it makes you feel any better.
erikaj - Nov 09, 2005 10:31:42 am PST #9436 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Huh.
Strega - Nov 09, 2005 10:58:27 am PST #9437 of 10002
Yeah, Snicket is the narrator, and a character with his own mysterious involvement in the story. There's an Unauthorized Autobiography of Snicket as sort of an adjunct to the series.
Then again, this
Handler is eleven-thirteenths of the way through a planned 13-volume gothic marathonsuggests that either the piece is dated, or the author is confused. Book 12 came out last month.
Dana - Nov 09, 2005 11:00:12 am PST #9438 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oooh! Have I read book 12?
Strega - Nov 09, 2005 11:06:42 am PST #9439 of 10002
I just read it this week -- The Penultimate Peril? They reach Hotel Denoument and there's, y'know, some regrettable occurences.
erikaj - Nov 09, 2005 11:09:10 am PST #9440 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I admire people that can plan like that. Whenever I write anything I'm more like "Um...stuff happens?"
Dana - Nov 09, 2005 12:06:32 pm PST #9441 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I forsee a library visit in my future.
DavidS - Nov 09, 2005 3:04:46 pm PST #9442 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Margaret Atwood commenting on Pinter's Nobel.
Sitting in her publisher's west London office, Atwood sounds neither dry, nor fierce, but given rather to delighted hoots of laughter that punctuate her carefully phrased answers. She purrs with pleasure at the honour for her collaborator, whose work she admiringly described as "prickly, bothersome, mordant and dour", and as "coming up on you sideways with an alarming glare". Now, she says: "I was particularly touched by the picture of him in the paper in which he looked childishly happy - innocently happy. Which is not a look you usually see coming from Mr Pinter. He looked genuinely surprised - 'How could this be happening?' It was quite lovely."
Dana - Nov 10, 2005 6:47:53 am PST #9443 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Huh. 42 holds on the new Lemony Snicket at the library.
I think a lunchtime trip to Borders might be in order.