I appreciate both your efforts greatly. This will be a real coup for yrs truly.
That's beautiful. Or taken literally, incredibly gross.
Buffy ,'Potential'
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."
Anne W. - Dec 23, 2005 5:09:45 pm PST #9678 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Sue - Dec 23, 2005 5:11:59 pm PST #9679 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Hey, I got none of that messy cache stuff. So I take a couple extra seconds to make it pretty.
Yes, you definitely win on presentation.
Since I'm in the Literary thread, I recently read Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro. I liked it lots, and I find that it's been kind of haunting my thoughts (and my dreams). Based on my sample of 1.5 books by Ishiguro (the other being Remains of the Day he really seems to be into doomed love.
§ ita § - Dec 23, 2005 5:14:47 pm PST #9680 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
you definitely win on presentation
I just wished that counted...
::continues sniffing, because she just doesn't read that much and has nothing else to say::
Anne W. - Dec 23, 2005 5:26:56 pm PST #9681 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I just wished that counted...
It did make things much easier to cut'n'paste into a Word document.
Nutty - Dec 24, 2005 2:50:57 am PST #9682 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Is this Ishiguro narrator a fussy, self-involved man writing in the first person?
I read When We Were Orphans, and didn't care much for it, and then got ten pages into The Remains of the Day before realizing that I was reading the exact same novel, except for all the details that were completely different.
I am in the middle of Louis Bayard's Mr. Timothy, and although it wears its literaryness on its sleeve, it's turning out to be a reasonably good novel. Very detail-oriented, so much so that I could map Tim's travels around the city from memory (and I've only ever been to London twice).
Sue - Dec 24, 2005 3:47:28 am PST #9683 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Is this Ishiguro narrator a fussy, self-involved man writing in the first person?
Nope, a young woman writing in the first person.
Anne W. - Dec 24, 2005 4:33:52 am PST #9684 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Sue, ita, I gave my mom her printout of Brokeback Mountain, and it absolutely made. her. day. Thanks again so much.
erikaj - Dec 24, 2005 8:50:11 am PST #9685 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
So, if I like Richard Price, and Lethem's "Fortress of Solitude" and I want a similar vibe but maybe want to stretch a little, but maybe not to Foster Wallace WTF? proportions, what might some brilliant person suggest?(Besides the Sam Cooke book, because I already want that one...the thought, you know, sends me, ha ha.)
DavidS - Dec 27, 2005 8:28:41 am PST #9686 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Almare - Dec 27, 2005 8:37:36 am PST #9687 of 10002
"My drink preference does not indicate my sexual preference. "
Harry Potter prevents traumatic injury
This can't possibly be what I think it is.
EDIT: It wasn't, butit was still amusing and made my heart glow. Maybe those non-Harry Potter reading kids will learn that Literacy pays.