Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'
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."
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.
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::
I just wished that counted...
It did make things much easier to cut'n'paste into a Word document.
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).
Is this Ishiguro narrator a fussy, self-involved man writing in the first person?
Nope, a young woman writing in the first person.
Sue, ita, I gave my mom her printout of Brokeback Mountain, and it absolutely made. her. day. Thanks again so much.
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.)
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.
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
Several days later, may I suggest Edward Conlon's Blue Blood ? Non-fiction, recently in paperback, a work about being a cop in the Bronx, and an interesting mix of city-born tunnel-vision with college literaryness. Funny stories, and biography of glad-handing (or tight-fisted) Irish grandparents, and thoughts about Serpico and The French Connection.
It came out in hardcover probably a year and a half ago (I saw him interviewed on Letterman), but I've only gotten around to reading him now.