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::
Seems like everyone's got a tale to tell.
Mal ,'Safe'
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."
§ ita § - Dec 23, 2005 5:14:47 pm PST #9680 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Nutty - Dec 27, 2005 10:25:27 am PST #9688 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
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.
erikaj - Dec 27, 2005 10:27:13 am PST #9689 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
That does sound very interesting, Nutty.