Huh. I did not like Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, and never even got around to trying Fierce Invalids.
We have to see the chimp playing hockey! That's hilarious! The ice is so slippery, and, and monkeys are all irrational. We have to see this!
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
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."
Emily - Jun 08, 2007 9:48:15 pm PDT #2811 of 28597
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Kate P. - Jun 09, 2007 6:21:15 am PDT #2812 of 28597
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I liked *both* Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas and Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, but wasn't crazy about Villa Incognito. I think that's his latest one, right?
Scrappy - Jun 09, 2007 7:21:01 am PDT #2813 of 28597
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Anne Tyler, Georgette Heyer, Mark Helprin
Laga - Jun 09, 2007 7:21:15 am PDT #2814 of 28597
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Villa Incognito is his latest novel. He also has a collection of short stories out now (I looked it up.)
JZ - Jun 09, 2007 8:02:51 am PDT #2815 of 28597
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Mark Helprin, Elizabeth Bishop, Flannery O'Connor, with a side of occasional Chesterton, especially The Man Who Was Thursday, of which I shall never tire.
Hayden - Jun 09, 2007 8:03:59 am PDT #2816 of 28597
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Big Bill Faulkner, Doubtin' Tommy Pynchon, and Vlad "The Impaler" Nabokov for me.
Hayden - Jun 09, 2007 8:07:25 am PDT #2817 of 28597
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Mmmmm, Elizabeth Bishop.
I stared and stared
and victory filled up
the little rented boat,
from the pool of bilge
where oil had spread a rainbow
around the rusted engine
to the bailer rusted orange,
the sun-cracked thwarts,
the oarlocks on their strings,
the gunnels--until everything
was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!
And I let the fish go.
JZ - Jun 09, 2007 8:21:35 am PDT #2818 of 28597
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, Corwood! That's the first poem that ever made me sit up and gasp, "So that's what a poem is!" Not that I hadn't liked poetry before, because I had, very much... but I can remember being nine or ten, in the car on a road trip to Tahoe, coming across it for the millionth time in a big Golden Treasury of Poetry or some such, and getting absolutely stoned on it. The homely fish, his eyes all backed and packed, his beard of hooks and snapped-off lines... oh.
Scrappy - Jun 09, 2007 8:22:16 am PDT #2819 of 28597
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Ooh, Nabokov. Maybe I'll bump Heyer off the list. If we are doing read the most, I might have to put SJ Perelman on there. I would also have to say Laurie Colwin.
Hayden - Jun 09, 2007 8:38:35 am PDT #2820 of 28597
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Wow, I can't even imagine grasping how great Elizabeth Bishop was when only 9 or 10. JZ = of the smart.
I'm ashamed to say that I've never read any Perelman. And I don't even know who many of the other favorites being mentioned are, so I've got to make some additions to my library list.