Wikipedia can be so awesome sometimes: [link]
Zoe: I thought you wanted to spend more time off-ship this visit. Wash: Out there is seems like it's all fancy parties. I like our party better. The dress code is easier and I know all the steps.
'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Tom Scola - Oct 28, 2009 8:44:55 am PDT #10264 of 28736
Where do you come from? Where do you go? What is your scene, baby? We just gotta know.
Polter-Cow - Oct 28, 2009 8:50:25 am PDT #10265 of 28736
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So it appears that The Hotel New Hampshire is the Ultimate John Irving Novel.
Steph L. - Oct 28, 2009 8:53:33 am PDT #10266 of 28736
That which does not kill you should RUN
That is excellent.
Also, it's fucked up yet unsurprising that the Irving books I loved the most in college (Garp, Hotel New Hampshire) were the ones that had all (or almost all) of the recurring themes.
DavidS - Oct 28, 2009 11:55:03 am PDT #10267 of 28736
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
were the ones that had all (or almost all) of the recurring themes.
Water Method Man and Setting Free the Bears both have the usual set of early Irving obsessions: Bears, Austria, Whores, Comic Mayhem, Ironic Death.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 28, 2009 12:20:46 pm PDT #10268 of 28736
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Favourite Irving: Owen Meaney. Possibly because I like slightly twisted takes on religion.
Polter-Cow - Oct 28, 2009 12:21:05 pm PDT #10269 of 28736
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That's my only Irving.
Amy - Oct 28, 2009 12:31:07 pm PDT #10270 of 28736
Because books.
My only Irving is Hotel New Hampshire a long, long time ago.
beth b - Oct 28, 2009 12:38:17 pm PDT #10271 of 28736
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Prayer for Owen Meany is really the only Irving I love
DavidS - Oct 28, 2009 12:38:53 pm PDT #10272 of 28736
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I never read Owen Meaney because of the all caps sections.
Steph L. - Oct 28, 2009 12:43:25 pm PDT #10273 of 28736
That which does not kill you should RUN
I never read Owen Meaney because of the all caps sections.
The all-caps drove me insane.