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I just read your review on "The Road," and I'm glad to see that you liked it more than I did. For some reason, it just didn't "do it for me." It was the first McCarthy book I ever read though, and while it didn't leave me starved for more, I can see myself attempting to read him again sometime in the distant future.

I've been wanting to read "A Confederacy of Dunces" for a while now; I've heard very good things about it. I'll let you know what I think once I get around to it.

I've never heard of "Swan Song" before, but I looked it up, and it sounds intereting. I love post-apocalyptic novels!

skrevet af AlbinoRhino kl. 5:49 pm (EST) den Dec 19, 2009

Thanks for the feedback on my review. I've written only a few so far, so it's nice to know when someone reads one and finds it worthwhile.

skrevet af steven03tx kl. 12:46 am (EST) den Dec 19, 2009

Vote Gore for Myra!

skrevet af tomcatMurr kl. 7:24 pm (EST) den Dec 18, 2009

I intend to pick up (and read) Breckenridge based on various LT conversations but have not gotten around to it yet.

skrevet af slickdpdx kl. 5:38 pm (EST) den Dec 18, 2009

Yup. Actually, I don't think they called it "right sizing." If I recall correctly, they used the even less morally ambiguous "rationalizing."

Sigh.

skrevet af BeckyJG kl. 12:15 pm (EST) den Dec 18, 2009

My computer will not allow me to discover what "Travesty" (below) might be, since I do not have the right Adobe Flash. Anything entitled Travesty looks promising to me :-). So what the hell is it?

And the real reason for writing is that the second Salon off-shoot is now up and running, (boy, is it ever running,) and you may want to acknowledge it on the Salon masthead.

skrevet af polutropos kl. 10:31 am (EST) den Dec 17, 2009

I know! Who'd a-thunk it would be an Agatha Christie review, for heaven's sake, that would speak to people? Go figure...

skrevet af BeckyJG kl. 3:35 pm (EST) den Dec 15, 2009

re: travesty as a salon read next year - that's wowsome (which is obviously better than awesome. by a mile.)

skrevet af slickdpdx kl. 3:34 pm (EST) den Dec 15, 2009

thanks. ^^ this site is great, really, isn't it?

skrevet af celine-dupont kl. 11:24 am (EST) den Dec 15, 2009

i have already read a book from isabel abedi : named "lucian".
it was very good but i have not understand a part of the story.
could you probably help me ?

skrevet af celine-dupont kl. 10:40 am (EST) den Dec 15, 2009

300--very impressive. A good list, too...aside from Dan Brown, a fine mix leaning mostly toward the literary.

Yeah, I'm zipping through the Christie. Almost finished with Murder in Mesopotamia, and am reading The Mysterious Affair at Styles via Daily Lit (have you checked them out? you get an installment a day in your email. Kind of a weird way to read).

Being unemployed is not agreeing with me. I'm turning into a sloth, playing games on facebook...

But, the publishing venture is actually proceeding, slowly, but apace. Oh, thanks for the link, btw. Could be a useful group.

skrevet af BeckyJG kl. 1:00 am (EST) den Dec 14, 2009

Thanks, Brent. I've been flailing around awhile, hoping to find someone or groups of someones who could help me get my book out there. It's not an area I'm versed in or good at. I will definitely contact these people

Thanks too for starting my mornings--and once extending my evening--with your questions. Y'know, I think it actually works better that you're not as familiar with that period as, say, Greg or Peter (Porius), because it leads you to ask more basic questions.

skrevet af copyedit52 kl. 4:36 pm (EST) den Dec 13, 2009

You probably already know this, but there's a short story/memoir from David Foster Wallace in the latest edition of The New Yorker. It's called "All that" and is about a childhood fascination with a toy cement-mixer, and magic! I wouldn't be surprised if it's part of some larger, already published, monstrosity.

If don't have a subscription (I don't), they're offering a free trial 4-week access-all-areas to the online edition at the moment, and you don't have to provide your credit-card details.

Anway, I read it. It was kind of fun. I'm sure it's far from his best, but it's in a simpler style than I'd previously seen from him.

skrevet af Third_cheek kl. 4:31 am (EST) den Dec 11, 2009

Re: Travesty - It looks to be highly readable and really brief. It would be my first too. I have two others.

I like your link clean up above. Looks better and will encourage more people to click through.

skrevet af slickdpdx kl. 2:52 pm (EST) den Dec 10, 2009

Travesty. Short read in 2010? 2manybooks! AAAAH!

I'd be http://www.theonion.com/content/node/994...

skrevet af slickdpdx kl. 12:09 am (EST) den Dec 10, 2009

For you: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/277...

skrevet af bardsfingertips kl. 12:02 pm (EST) den Dec 9, 2009

I have already gone through the first chapters but I am distracted by other books at the moment.

skrevet af Macumbeira kl. 11:48 pm (EST) den Dec 6, 2009

got my thumb for your portrait.
I guess you will become an even greater Joyce - believer than me : ).

skrevet af Macumbeira kl. 2:34 pm (EST) den Dec 6, 2009

Thanks, EF. That hot review was a surprise for me. I haven't had one for quite a while and that review was of a book I read before we had the "read but not owned" category. I took a break a few days ago and added some of those books to my library along with the reviews I had on my computer "reading journal." If you like classic mysteries that is a good one!

Carolyn

skrevet af MusicMom41 kl. 10:41 pm (EST) den Dec 5, 2009

A review with humanity in it. I'm mostly for the things that help us find our way in the darkness. Your review qualified as a one that helps push back the darkness. An Epiphany, something old Joyce knew about, maybe nobody knew better.
SD is in Ulysses, I don't see what the sticking point is , or what is the rub, there. It's like watching "Pistol" Pete Maravich play, you don't always understand what he is up to, you are a little hurt because you were not given such gifts, but that doesn't mean you should tune him out because of these things. There is the sacred and the profane, there is the raw and the cooked, Joyce is our precious little contact with the, yes, sacred. Joyce has been, indeed, touched by god, he will not be mocked. If we read slowly and surely, and throw away the moquer to the marrow Bill Murray sensibility, we will get the reward we deserve. It also depends on just how we can climb, well let's see, maybe it is Jacob's Ladder. It will always mean somethings to some, and other things to others.
I'm not convinced that you are in the gaggle that throws the baby out with the bathwater. But what do I know?
p

skrevet af Porius kl. 2:59 pm (EST) den Dec 5, 2009

thank you so much for your Comment..THE PHYSICK BOOK....was better than i thought it would be..but the author IS an academic..be warned!! THE BONE PEOPLE has been on my List for years and i finally found a used copy that was actually intact! yippee!!

later
Jude

skrevet af jdthloue kl. 11:56 am (EST) den Dec 5, 2009

Terrific review of "Portrait." I too was--and still am--put off by anyone who's ballyhooed too much, much less worshiped, often to my own detriment. Just because everyone likes something doesn't ipso facto mean it's unworthy of my attention. You made me want to read the book again, so many years after reading it in college. Doubtless I'll appreciate it more now.

skrevet af copyedit52 kl. 10:04 am (EST) den Dec 5, 2009

Start readin' Light in August, son!

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 4:12 am (EST) den Dec 5, 2009

Check the season, bro! I've been suffering the last weeks of the semester, swamped with work and hardly any time to really contribute or think about Faulkner or too much else on this site except a comment or two (though I find time to check LT 500 times a day...). Got two big essays to worry about starting tomorrow on the Road (just re-read it--have no idea what to write about: there aren't really any 'scholarly articles' yet) and something Faulkner and a Japanese final next week, and thank teh gawds dat's bout all. Ugh. Then--hopefully--I'll be able to catch up on here.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 3:20 am (EST) den Dec 5, 2009

Great review of Portrait of the Artist! You have convinced me to dig out my copy and read it again--I, too, barely tolerated it in college but from a more mature point of view it sounds like I would appreciate it more now.

skrevet af MusicMom41 kl. 1:00 am (EST) den Dec 5, 2009

We'll get you appreciating Ulysses yet, fear not.

skrevet af tomcatMurr kl. 10:23 pm (EST) den Dec 4, 2009

Sure. That sounds great. Thanks. I read "The Dwarf" several years ago and I would enjoy re-reading it and hearing other opinions/discussions.

skrevet af jodavid kl. 1:19 pm (EST) den Dec 3, 2009

PS I loved the 3 dimensional book art link--posted it on Facebook.

skrevet af BeckyJG kl. 9:02 pm (EST) den Dec 2, 2009

I have not swept away with the Broom, yet (I love bad puns...so, forgive me). I am really enjoying it, even though I see a lot of post-college angst throughout. I just placed it on hold because of my recent Stephen King kick (it happens every 9 months or so (can "kick" count as another bad pun in association to "9 months"?)

Anyway, thank you for the kind words.

skrevet af bardsfingertips kl. 11:47 am (EST) den Dec 2, 2009

I bet it would be fun to have a drink with you.

skrevet af jodavid kl. 10:56 am (EST) den Dec 2, 2009

Noticed this and HAD to say something...

Le Salon Litteraire is proud to support it's very first affiliate: Le Salon du Faulkner

There is something wrong with this, very wrong indeed. Watch out for those sneaky apostrophes...;)

skrevet af wisewoman kl. 9:35 pm (EST) den Dec 1, 2009

I liked your 'Salem's Lot review. When you posted it, I had just read it myself. Thus, I just wrote one myself (but I am not that funny).

skrevet af bardsfingertips kl. 3:58 pm (EST) den Dec 1, 2009

Haven't met betterthanchocolate yet... I guess we'd have something in common :) I'm wishing now I called myself ChocolateSocks. Much better name I think.

I like the way you headhunt people to join Le Salon, it makes us feel all honoured. I'm wondering though what the old lags think of all us lower-order noobies in there - they've gone kinda quiet lately, that is Murr, urania, Solla, polutropus and others. Hope it's not the new order of the Masses scaring them away. (Note that I am NOT referring to ncgraham or anyone else in particular! I just mean everyone except the Grand Old Originals)

And thanks for the congrats on the review! Being Queen of the Hot List is still all fun and new for me, though WW would yawn and churn out another ten.

skrevet af ChocolateMuse kl. 2:07 am (EST) den Dec 1, 2009

Did you see this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_jyXJTlr...

skrevet af BeckyJG kl. 12:07 pm (EST) den Nov 30, 2009

Good morning, Enrique. Thanks for setting up the thread. You're a gem. I invited a bunch of people to (hopefully) mix it up with the quick-witted crew that usually appears. I hope it works out enjoyably for everyone.

A question: How do I do the blue ink thing for book references? I want to do that with The Hero with a Thousand Faces, for instance, and no doubt others I might bring up in conversation.

skrevet af copyedit52 kl. 11:10 am (EST) den Nov 29, 2009

Hey EF;
Not yet, but I am going to. I thought it was assigned reading through Le Salon (it being a dictatorship and all) so I ordered it and having paid for it, I will read it. (if I can) But I really do hate Melville or at least what I have read of him thus far in my short (ahem) lifetime. He is just so over my head or something. But I will give it the old college try!~!
Yeah, I like Kay Scarpetta. Occasionally I am pretty creeped out but I enjoy the series.
Thanx for stopping by and I will catch you on the threads.
belva

skrevet af nannybebette kl. 5:54 pm (EST) den Nov 28, 2009

Congratulations on your HOT REVIEW for "Salem's Lot". Good job.
belva

skrevet af nannybebette kl. 12:01 pm (EST) den Nov 28, 2009

Nice linking, sir! You do appear to be linking Joseph Andrews & Shamela for just Shamela, I will say. I almost feel like I should try reading Pamela before then, but I hear tell it's torture.

(Is there some surprise group read for the Melville book, Pierre, 'r somethin'?)

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 11:08 pm (EST) den Nov 27, 2009

Good review Henry on King. Got your thumb !

It is true that he writes well. My fav. is pet semetary, where he damn well succeeds in involving the reader in the horror written in his pages.

skrevet af Macumbeira kl. 2:28 pm (EST) den Nov 27, 2009

I am here....
keeping an eye on you.

skrevet af Macumbeira kl. 3:50 am (EST) den Nov 27, 2009

Congrats on your hottest of hot reviews! :)

skrevet af wisewoman kl. 9:13 pm (EST) den Nov 25, 2009

Very odd. I had the same problem a long time back with a group I formed and abandoned; I just left it abandoned and it died. But we should figure out how to fix this one for you.

skrevet af A_musing kl. 11:43 am (EST) den Nov 25, 2009

Couldn't finish the Federman, huh?

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 10:13 pm (EST) den Nov 23, 2009

I admit to being squeamish, or shy, or maybe just plain cowardly, when it comes to putting myself out there--my own thread seems, at the moment, unthinkable--though clearly I'm not shy about trying to promote, or pimp, my book, perhaps because I've labored so long as a writer that I've developed a thick skin as well as absolute confidence in my own writing. I believe that comes through in "I Think," and even more so in the one I'm working on now, "Digging Deeper" (just five or so chapters from completion), in which one of my "strands" is beginning to write after recovering my blown mind, mixing it up with other writers, poets, etc. (The reader will find a deconstruction of the Patrick character in it, as I start work on an actual novel, which begins as a series of short stories in an overlapping time period.)

Anyway (I digress, no doubt because you're such a good listener): I certainly want to become more well-known--no, change that to merely "known by at least some"--but I'm hesitant to throw whatever of my selves does such things out there as a public figure (you might have noticed how gingerly I've entered the realm of the peuple). Though if someone else takes the ball and runs with it, I wouldn't complain.

Btw, on my book: like finding Waldo, Henry Miller makes the briefest of appearances. Not a reference to him, but the actual man. To have called attention to him would of course have thrown that chapter out of kilter, and in fact I didn't know it was him until years later, when I saw his photo on a dust jacket.

skrevet af copyedit52 kl. 5:35 pm (EST) den Nov 23, 2009

Hi EF,

Thanks. I think I know what you mean. Funny thing about Durrell...he's like one of those solitary drunks you might encounter once in a while in a bar sitting at the end stool, or on a street waiving a squeegee at your car. Someone who launches into a disjointed spiel that fascinates but is obviously absurd. You conclude that the stranger is some sort of down at the heels intellectual suffering from alcoholism, a stroke, a mania or worse. And you move on.

Unless, the individual reminds you of an uncle, or an old friend, or yourself...in which case, you linger, listen, nod, and possibly volunteer a few dollars or a subject for their dissertation.

I tried a couple of times over the years to read the Alexandria Quartet, but never made it past a chapter or so. For some reason, however, Monsieur caught my fancy. Perhaps it was just the superficial fact that the book was a first edition hardcover and was set in gothic font. Whatever. I really got hooked, and plan to finish the rest of the quincunx, as well as a biography of Durrell, and perhaps a book on the gnostics by la carriere.

Ah well, there goes my TBR for the next month or so. It's like tripping over Alexander Theroux all over again.

Happy Thanksgiving week, peace, and all that,
G

skrevet af Ganeshaka kl. 12:57 pm (EST) den Nov 21, 2009

It occurs to me that at least a half dozen regular and sometime participants among the peuple now have or will shortly get my book, and that it thus might be interesting if they have a go at it, maybe the week after next or so, in Reviews about Reviews. I might chime in, of course; I do enjoy that strand.

skrevet af copyedit52 kl. 10:17 am (EST) den Nov 21, 2009

So...you 'spect you'll join us over in Club Faulkner for a good ol' reading of...Flags in the Dust? mayhap even Light in August? one of our two reads coming up, at least? Eh? eh? Nudge nudge! I know you want to!

Hey, I read Magic Christian today. Pretty damn funny. I was rolling around during the cruise, thinking back to DFW (sigh :(). And his film editing! Ahhhhh....hahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 2:49 am (EST) den Nov 20, 2009

What a deft hand you have; "moderator" is too removed for your no doubt intuitive involvement: smoothing out wrinkles, juicing up where necessary, opening the floor or tilting it this way or that to keep it upright, appreciating or chiding, where that seems required ... I'm impressed. You are what we called in the "who am I?" days a "guide," and good ones were hard to find.

skrevet af copyedit52 kl. 8:12 am (EST) den Nov 19, 2009

Okay, okay, I'll do my darnedest to play along with the jest in March. And maybe, perhaps, I'll hit Les Miz. I'm on Pet Sematary right now (group read over at the King's Dear Constant Readers group). Easy and juciy (and bloody and gross).

He really did hit it on this new one, though, didn't he? Really digs into the human psyche and lays it bare.

And, of course, he's really gross.

Have fun.

skrevet af BeckyJG kl. 12:40 am (EST) den Nov 19, 2009

Thank you for the welcome! I was jealous of how much fun Slickdpdx (with whom I do share my life, children and library) had reading and discussing Master and Margarita and wanted in. I'm enjoying Les Miserable so far--and wishing I had more of a headstart on it.

skrevet af joltbklyn kl. 11:24 pm (EST) den Nov 18, 2009

Thanks for inviting me to join this group EnriqueFreeque. I don't know why I
haven't bothered to join the group. Isn't Les Miserable in French? I can't read French or is there some English translations of the book somewhere? Maybe I wil
join this group. The only book by Herman Melville I'm familiar with is Moby Dick,
of course. But I have never even read Moby Dick or anything by Melville before.

Beatles1964

skrevet af beatles1964 kl. 9:24 am (EST) den Nov 17, 2009

Did not know that about Wurlitzer. My familiarity ends at "PYNCHON SEZ HE COO'!" That's all I know. :D Nog's one of the few non-Faulkner books I'm keeping along with me, so I'll likely read it before too long.

I'd love to have a Salon dedicated to Faulkner. I can't believe there aren't any Faulkner groups on LT already! Only worries are: I'd probably be the only poster, har har! At least until I get past these first two shitpiles. Maybe. Aw, I'm just bein' nervous. You should join if we make this, and take part in the Faulkner love. Eh? eh? yes? Go pick up Flags in the Dust, that will be the first major read once I finish Mosquitoes. Ooooo eeee oooo. It'd be awesome if it could be a group project. I'd be reading too fast for the group, I'm sure, but one book a month going by publication order, mayhap, I'd still join in and talk about them all, learn a lot more, too, I'm sure. Possible? or too much to reasonably expect?

I did just do a review of Soldiers' Pay as my first (or second, counting A,A!) review for Faulknerfest. Woohoo! Hope to do them all.

Oh, and I did fix the first half of my Book of Daniel review. It's much better now. :)

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 1:51 am (EST) den Nov 16, 2009

I can't wait.

skrevet af PekoeTheCat kl. 4:09 pm (EST) den Nov 15, 2009

Thank you for your thumbs up on my Playboy of the Western World review. I was beginning to think that no one read my reviews. Normally that doesn't bother me but I liked this particular play so much that I want people to know about it. I love reading plays and I just hope to get more people interested in plays too!

Thank you for wishing me a better next year. I need all the good wishes I can get!

skrevet af Porua kl. 2:46 am (EST) den Nov 14, 2009

AND you can use your coupon on the Karr and still get 40% off the King with your Borders Rewards card.

At least they do something right.

skrevet af BeckyJG kl. 10:32 pm (EST) den Nov 13, 2009

Thanks for the shout out--woo hoo.

Also (going back a couple of conversations) I didn't know about Mary Karr and DFW. Interesting. I haven't read The Liar's Club, but did read Cherry, the follow up. Here's the NYT review of the newest. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/books/... Sounds good, I think. Juicy.

skrevet af BeckyJG kl. 3:04 pm (EST) den Nov 12, 2009

That's not a bad idea re: Faulkner. I just finished Soldiers' Pay, and of those 221 pages (with tiny goddamn print, I might add) maybe 10 or 15 were worth reading. Fucking bad. Cool idea, but so, so, so badly handled. (Again, I stress the tiny print. It was so painful/boring. And now I have to read Mosquitoes before I get to his good stuff? and it's 65 pages longer???? UGH! All future Faulkner-fests will leave these two pieces of shit out. OUT.)

I'm half-working on re-writing the [d1] part of the Book of Daniel review. It's bugging the hell out of me. I'll be honest: I was wasted when I wrote it. I don't remember it at all other than I liked it. (At the time, of course.) Martin's making me want to comment on more books I read, try to find something no matter how small to say about all of them, hence the new quick scribblings.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 12:06 am (EST) den Nov 12, 2009

I am gravely disappointed.

I wrote a major play, starring you, and it got completely lost in all the hubbub about improvements or not, and "yes, it was your fault, no it wasn't." Kind of like opening off-off Broadway as a new musical opens on Broadway.

You have to read it. It is post #38, I think, in the Improvements thread.

skrevet af polutropos kl. 1:35 pm (EST) den Nov 11, 2009

fcuk you scared me man.

Don't you ever do that to my ol' heart again.

skrevet af Macumbeira kl. 1:45 am (EST) den Nov 11, 2009

Holy beans. Soldiers' Pay is the most boring book ever. The first chapter was great! and even very different from the rest of the book, it was, like, slapstick-y, funny...but everything after that...my god...overwritten soap opera. Each page is taking me five minutes!

I probably should have taken the advice to skip Faulkner's first two duds. BUT I MUSTN'T! AHGHH!

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 10:59 pm (EST) den Nov 10, 2009

Being forced to tackle Absalom, Absalom! and study it so deeply changes Faulkner. Understanding Faulkner as a writer and what may be considered his most difficult book (A,A!--everyone seems to have a diff. opinion tho. Guess I'll find out, eh?:???!!?!#1t12t) changes things: As I Lay Dying was EASY.

I recommend going back and re-reading AILD. I've read others saying it's the best intro to him, and it wouldn't surprise me if that were true. Chapters are kept short, the stream-of-c. doesn't really get out of hand to confuse the reader, the story is complicated but hardly comparable to A,A!'s complexity. It's also quick. I shot through it in an evening: very addicting, almost like a beach-read. Go go go! try it again! jump on the Faulkner wagon w/ me!

Oh Mary Karr huh huh? That's a name I've been seeing at HPB for years and years whenever I'd look for Kerouac or Kesey there she'd be. In fact, I just saw Cherry in the discount bin the other day, but after looking at the cover and seeing the word SEQUEL I tossed it back. Later, maybe. Later.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 6:05 pm (EST) den Nov 10, 2009

Yeah dog. Friends for sure. It means a lot, what you said, and it's always good to know someone is in our corner. As long as we're going all mutual appreciation society, let me say too that I remember when it was "Le salon litteraire de Henri Freeqy", and now that I'm on board with the salonistas, I really think it's awesome the energy you've put into making this a welcoming, interesting corner of the inet full of brilliant folk and scintillating ideas. And laffs! Here's to you sir.

skrevet af booksfallapart kl. 11:02 pm (EST) den Nov 7, 2009

I'm afraid I don't have 19 P.D. James. I may own one or two, but I have read a lot of them. They are serious literature in addition to being mysteries - though the Children of Men is not a mystery, somewhat science fiction instead, in a Doris Lessing sort of way. Anyway, my library consists of books I've read, not own. I life in a rather small house and I have a lot of hobbies to fill it up. No way I would have room for that many books. I suspected you were the thumbs on my reviews - I noticed when I put up my Martha Quest review. Amazing how well you track what people are doing in the salon - I am a little overwhelmed by all the new members.

skrevet af solla kl. 7:19 pm (EST) den Nov 7, 2009

Oh yes, oh yes. I thought about it, you know, either finding a second box to mail items in, or just ship it all to old Barron with your address and instructions enclosed. Sho, sho, Barron may really need pushing to get up and ship the items out, I'm not too sure about it all, yet. You should pester him about it. Last I spoke to him, he was getting ready to read the Coover, try to get it out of the way to ship to you ASAP. I also included the Pancake story collection and Reruns as optional to send yr way; I dunno how interested you are, if at all.

So, I'm giving up on the A-Z business after I finish this new Eggers. Why? Faulkner fever. I need more more more more more.

I'm interested to know what you thought of As I Lay Dying, so SHARE. I see you've read it, but haven't rated. (Didn't you tell me you gave up on Absalom recently? You have it marked as READ. I'd like to know more about your feelings in skimming Absalom and Sound+Fury, too. I'm going nuts for his stuff, and even brought along a bunch of other southern gothic writers to try out soon.)

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 12:38 am (EST) den Nov 7, 2009

I see DFW criticism in your recent activity! Yay! You getting ready to school us all? :)

skrevet af Medellia kl. 3:33 pm (EST) den Nov 6, 2009

Hey, I am in the middle of your best buddy's work: The Broom of the System. So far, it is quite good.

skrevet af bardsfingertips kl. 2:23 pm (EST) den Nov 6, 2009

but hold,
what about TOS?

skrevet af tomcatMurr kl. 3:29 am (EST) den Nov 4, 2009

Lead on Macduff!
And damned be him who first cries 'Hold! Enough!'

skrevet af tomcatMurr kl. 3:29 am (EST) den Nov 4, 2009

We crossed posted, but my guess was wrong anyway... please feel no pressure to lurk on my thread! I didn't mean to clear my throat and bring it to your attention!

I need to try to make my home page do what yours does, sounds very cool.

skrevet af ChocolateMuse kl. 1:22 am (EST) den Nov 4, 2009

...never mind, just found WW singing my praises in review reviews, which explains it. Thanks!

skrevet af ChocolateMuse kl. 1:16 am (EST) den Nov 4, 2009

Thank you, how nice of you! Just trying to work out... how did you know about the review so soon? Are you a lurker on my 50 challenge thread? *confused but appreciative*

skrevet af ChocolateMuse kl. 12:51 am (EST) den Nov 4, 2009

BEFOREIFORGET: So that package I said I'd mail out? I may have ahhh, mailed it to another friend first with a note to send it (and one or two others--maybe!) your way afterwards. D: Sorry, bro!

I think Sukenick is the "PROFESSOR SUKENICK" from TBOD. I found one article saying it was him and was another metafictional aspect of the book, jokingly using a metawriter, but besides that...hard to find anything saying YES YES THIS IS THE RONALD SUKEY.

The same teach that recommended Bender to me also recommended that Jeanette Winterson book Le Salon's selected as a 2010 read. Guess I'll be on the prowl for her.

I don't get how you can do it. I just can't start a book w/out finishing it. Can't. Well. Once. Okay, this one single time. But that's all. It's really hard for me to leave a book unfinished.

I actually don't like bringing up my ma. I told this to Richard once, too, but whenever I bring her up I'm mining for attention or sympathy or something. Just feel schmucky. I'll suck it up and give you an (brief) update, if ye're interested. (As briefly put as possible:) She's been cooped up in her room for the past 4-6 weeks, usually with an oxygen mask of some sort on. Pah's been trying to figure out a backup power source for intense storm activity.

Good point (re: Barth+Fowles). If I love the author, I'll end up reading both versions anyway, and it'll be rad comparing them. I probably wouldn't have gone back and read the original Barth if I went through the update foist, so VERY GOOD I DID.

I've totally been out of the writing/reading mood this last week. Things need a mo'fuggin' change! NOW! And hey, I should do this NaNoWriMo...hmmm.....

The hell's Clarice Lispector?

(Oh, Freud was a minor character in one of the Robert Anton Wilson books. May have been Mask(s?) of the Illuminati. May have been Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy.)

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 11:39 pm (EST) den Nov 1, 2009

EF,

Underworld was an experience. It's such a collage that it took a day or two after I finished reading it for me to put the puzzle pieces together in my subconscious and feel what I just read. You were right, in your review of The Body Artist, that DeLillo is hard to describe. There seems to be more "there" there than the mere words signify.

Along the way, I was inspired to search youtube for old Lenny Bruce performances, and even stumbled on an appearance by a very young Frank Zappa on the Steve Allen show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho37arU5-...

Peace,
G

skrevet af Ganeshaka kl. 3:21 pm (EST) den Nov 1, 2009

members to the salon. We are close to 100

skrevet af Macumbeira kl. 11:44 am (EST) den Nov 1, 2009

three more henry, three more !

skrevet af Macumbeira kl. 11:41 am (EST) den Nov 1, 2009

LOL You joker you, how many Belgians from Ghent have you met before ?

skrevet af Macumbeira kl. 12:59 am (EST) den Oct 31, 2009

Thanks - having fun at it. I hadn't even noticed Ms. Lispector's existence before, and am curious about that one.

I suspect there will be more than one sampling Clarel and not diving into the whole thing. I don't think it requires a full commitment to all 18,000 lines.

skrevet af A_musing kl. 12:12 pm (EST) den Oct 30, 2009

Thank you for understanding, my dear. My working-at-reading days are over!

Cheers and best wishes!

Moi

skrevet af Boobalack kl. 5:34 pm (EST) den Oct 29, 2009

No doubt this is 100% drivel and I know nothing about it at all, but the name caught my fancy, and I thought of you. Cheers!

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

skrevet af polutropos kl. 8:16 am (EST) den Oct 29, 2009

I went to the group page and was going to join until I saw all the requirements. I'm just not up for reading assignments and in depth discussions. Today, I only read what I want to read and only for fun. Selfish, I suppose, but I had enough analysis in college. I majored in mathematics so didn't have an abundance of literature courses. I only posted in that one thread because it caught my eye. Sorry.

I do thank you for your kind invitation, though, and am rather flattered.

Cheers!

La Boobalaque

skrevet af Boobalack kl. 9:29 pm (EST) den Oct 28, 2009

Love your Drunken Punkins!!!!

.......and no, i am Not a Sockpuppet (though i have a bunch i made in high school, umpteen years ago..they be olde but still have character)..and i like the thread on the Purple People Group thing......some people just don't have enough to do with their lives!!

...that's all i guess

Jude

skrevet af jdthloue kl. 3:21 pm (EST) den Oct 28, 2009

Oh Dick! I just read my first Doctorow, after years of staring at Ragtime occasionally collecting dust on my shelves, kind of bothered by the idea that it'd be boring as a mother, like super conventional, and here I go turn around and read this Book of Daniel instead--ELD's least effort according to Rich. As I was just telling him, it was FANTASTICO. Is Ragtime in the same vein? meaning, is it like way cool rad metafiction? Dude, RONALD SUKENICK was an actual character in it, the narrator's writing professor (Doctorow's in real life?). Also as I told Richard, the last 20 pages, or really 9 of those pages devoted to Disneyland, may make up one of my most favoritest writings ever.

How'd you come to a better understanding of Acker? Should I maybe look into this well of knowledge as...uh...also? before hitting any of her books? I should go back to SA and get that copy of Blood 'n' Guts I saws the other day.

Tell me about this 17th c. book! Is it actually a copy dating back that far on...that? AND OH MAN ME TOO@ AIMEE BENDER! Ever since my favorite English prof. recommended this collection years ago...I wish I still had a way of contacting her. She was tiiiiiiiyiiight. I normally don't sample books like you, once I start I finish it, I can't read many at once, etc., but I went out of my way to sample her after your request and read the first short story and let me just say A W E S O M E. (Warning: It's only 4 or 5 pages and likely not an exact representation on the whole collection's quality.)

YOU AND RICHARD BOTH have got me super excited for Fowles gawddamn I can't wait to try him out. I've been bogged down really bogged by school books lately (even if they are great [DOCTOROW]) so I'm way behind on my own reading plans, and I think even Pynchon's unfinished-ness is slowing down my reading in general. It's bugging the fuck out of me. (Also: I can't believe you only read like 20 books a year wow.)

My local friend invited me out to Colorado come Dec. (and maybe into next semester if I want to take a break from school [doubtful]) to work on a WIND FARM. May. May not. My own fambly wants me here, helping out in my mom's final months (disgustingly hopefully--I just want this OVER, weights LIFTED, GONE--a part of me just wants to yell DIE ALREADY).

Back to Fowles sort of related to Fowles at least I read the original v. of Barth's Floating Opera before I knew he revised it and was disappointed there. In that case, it's oft regarded that the revised ed. fixed all the issues the original had, and returned material the publishers found too offensive, initially. While I'm sure this situation is completely dif., the idea that I may be wasting my time still bothers me. (Did I waste my time on the original FO? I wish I still had it to compare. I want to read the revised ed.! Now! And I want to read the original versions of End of the Road and Sot-Weed! What kind of differences do THOSE books have? huh!?!?!? Oy, I'm talking to myself too much.)

I'm already getting bored with my second A-Z proj. introducing nonfiction into the mix.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 3:32 am (EST) den Oct 28, 2009

I saw the sock puppet brouhaha (ha ha ha).

skrevet af BeckyJG kl. 2:30 am (EST) den Oct 28, 2009

Right, my jaw is aching now from trying not to laugh out loud (I'm at work). What a crying shame that she's gone, that was sheer genius.

I am consoled, however, by a certain someone intimately connected with Katrina.

skrevet af ChocolateMuse kl. 12:05 am (EST) den Oct 28, 2009

You know who I can hear reading Cockpit? The voice is a bit like Joe Frank. Then I look up Joe Frank on Wikipedia and see a similar background. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Frank. Weird, eh?

skrevet af slickdpdx kl. 7:53 pm (EST) den Oct 27, 2009

You know what? Hot reviews are just a fancy name for a popularity test. I've never had more than one thumb on my reviews in my LIFE before, and then, I join Le Salon, and just beforehand I make friends with people like WW and ncgraham and you *wonders shyly if it's not too early to call you a friend* and then, suddenly, bingo! I make the very top of the Hot Review list!

It's fun, and does nice things for my ego, but I don't think it truly reflects the quality of the review.

But thanks for the compliment, and indeed, if you yourself were not worthy (and how could you not be, what a preposterous idea) your sock puppets would make up for it :) though I'm still wondering who some of them are...

skrevet af ChocolateMuse kl. 7:41 pm (EST) den Oct 27, 2009

You turned me on to Kosinski when you read Steps. This is my first read and really appreciating his style. And, no lie, I was thinking, completely independently, that he must have influenced B.E.E.

skrevet af slickdpdx kl. 12:15 pm (EST) den Oct 27, 2009

Beloved dictator,

While hanging out on Murrushka's profile page (because mine is so boring right now), I noticed you had posted a link to "You Are in My System." What is this song? The official anthem of LT? Did Tim hire them? I wish I were a sock puppet; it would be so much more interesting than being me. All I get to do is spread compost, plant, weed, dig, milk goats, and read. Now if I were a sock puppet . . .

skrevet af urania1 kl. 2:41 am (EST) den Oct 27, 2009

just checking in see what the Freeque is going on (Marvin Gaye in the background)...that dastardly Richard isn't giving you (too much) trouble..i hope(!??!)

J

and you added LONDON FIELDS...good....

skrevet af jdthloue kl. 6:53 pm (EST) den Oct 26, 2009

I was deep in sleep when suddenly I felt compelled to find out a few things about that group with the French name.

How much are the dues?
Of what does the initiation consist?
When, where and how often are the meetings held?
And, most important, will there be food and something to drink, other than coffee -- Pepsi, perhaps?

Now, back to beddy-bye. ::Yawn.::

skrevet af Boobalack kl. 2:42 am (EST) den Oct 26, 2009

Thanks, I feel so loved, in an online kinda way. I have succumbed and joined. I hope to prove worthy. :)

skrevet af ChocolateMuse kl. 9:46 pm (EST) den Oct 25, 2009

I'm not sure I'm knowledgeable enough to join your group, but I shall seriously consider it. Thank you.

"My dear" is fine since that's what most people call little old ladies. Tee hee hee. I knew I'd be an lol one day -- just never expected it to be so soon. Such is life in the fast lane.

Cheers!

La Boobalaque

PeeEss~What a pretty child in your profile pic!

skrevet af Boobalack kl. 6:26 pm (EST) den Oct 24, 2009

I will be happy to co-lead Proust. The Mahabharata - that's probably a life-long effort. I struggled to get through the first part of Book 1. I was confused, bemused, and refused to go any further until I got a better sense of context. That alone will take some time.

skrevet af urania1 kl. 2:17 pm (EST) den Oct 24, 2009

Eh, the FotR review is no big deal, more a review of the audiobook than of the work itself. Some books defy reviewing; I feel unequal to articulating their greatness.

skrevet af wisewoman kl. 10:19 am (EST) den Oct 24, 2009

Here are three suggestions for a short Swede Read: Dr. Glas by Hjalmar Soderberg, a Nobel Prize author. It is short (160 pages) and is considered his finest work. We might also consider reading a Strindberg play. He was one of the drama masters and plays are short. And a third author whom I constantly try to push on people - Per Olov Enquist - has written a short, deeply disturbing book entitled The Book about Blanche and Marie.

A longer project (~288 pages) that I've been wanting to tackle is The Dwarf by Par Lagerkvist. I have not read this book, but here's a description to wet your reading palate: "'I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think it is I who scare them, but it is the dwarf within them, the ape-faced manlike being who sticks up his head from the depths of their souls.' Pär Lagerkvist's richly philosophical novel The Dwarf is an exploration of individual and social identity. The novel, set in a time when Italian towns feuded over the outcome of the last feud, centers on a social outcast, the court dwarf PIccoline. From his special vantage point Piccoline comments on the court's prurience and on political intrigue as the town is gripped by a siege. Gradually, Piccoline is drawn deeper and deeper into the conflict, and he inspires fear and hate around him as he grows to represent the fascination of the masses with violence."

P.S. I will get Clarice Lispector up and going. I've been playing around on LT and reading a book about the development of Indian cuisine and another by a former colleague of mine entitled Was Hinduism Invented. I am slowly but surely amassing enough knowledge about India and Hinduism to really go forth with what will probably be the major read of my remaining years: THe Mahabharata - the real one, not the condensed versions.

skrevet af urania1 kl. 10:03 pm (EST) den Oct 23, 2009

OH YOU GOT THE TIDEWATER TALES.

The things I read on the Rio seemed pretty safe. Most of the campgrounds for the park are right along there, too. I'll have to be stopping by the visitor's center before I set down on the trail itself, so I'll be getting a decent map around that time. I think we'll run into a few caves (maybe even old mines? did I read there were a couple on there? hm).

So I just went to a library sale today and got a bunch of books, including Fowles' the Magus. I asked Richard about this too, but the copy I got was published in '70, and according to the Interwebs, Fowles released a greatly revised edition in '77. Do you know anything about the differences? Should I ignore the copy I got today and hold off for a revised one?

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 8:32 pm (EST) den Oct 23, 2009

Y'know, I read a whole bunch of Koontz a whole bunch of years ago. Aside from Watchers (talking dog? you can't go wrong there) I wasn't taken with his work, so I haven't read anything by him in, sheesh, at least 20 years. This new one hit my desk yesterday, and in your post you pegged *exactly* why I picked it up--the optimism. Boy do I need that right now. I'm loving this book--there's a hugely important dog character, an incipient serial killer, and golden optimism simply showering down all around.

Can't wait to finish and write a review.

skrevet af BeckyJG kl. 7:23 pm (EST) den Oct 23, 2009

Virapol is much worse. And yes I will be happy to start a thread for Clarice Lispector. I've been gathering materials about her for a while.

skrevet af urania1 kl. 10:40 pm (EST) den Oct 21, 2009

Thank you! (errr, for what exactly?)

skrevet af tomcatMurr kl. 10:40 pm (EST) den Oct 18, 2009

We're not 100% yet, I was thinkin' on either picking up Hiking Big Bend or Big Bend Guide in the next few weeks. The latter's a little book I can carry in my pocket while out there, so that'd be prettttty helpful.

Using this map as a basic guide I was thinkin' we'd leave early--about an 8.5- to 9.5-hour drive--park at the Lost Mine Trail and take that short little excursion, hopefully getting back near sundown, go to a major camping area and just set up there for the night. We'd wake up the next day--and here's where plans get less developed--and head south, basically going and staying on or around the clusterfuck of trails you see around Emory Peak. I'm a little confused on where one can camp around those trails, since according to these maps there aren't any primitive sites or anything even close to these trails. That can't be right...I'm not sure how long all of that will take us, but according to this top ten list of things to do there, the best trails are all aroud that middle area. What I really would love to do is canoe down the Rio Grande for 3 or 4 days...but I should probably take a canoeing class or somethin' first...

I just hope we can pull it off in November or the first week of Dec., or it'll be freezing at night! We're really pushing it!

First thing I gotta do come Nov. is buy a $100 backpack. Up in WA I lived entirely on borrowed equipment, only spending about $30 on food for the entire trip. I'm not excited about having to find the monies this time for all the equipment/food/etc.

Well, surely more than you asked for. But eh.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 6:56 pm (EST) den Oct 18, 2009

Moby Dick to be re-written in emoticons....

Huh.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 6:31 pm (EST) den Oct 18, 2009

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113537/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384642/

:) There are two movies with the same name.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 5:58 pm (EST) den Oct 18, 2009

Self-supporting *snort*

I care for the elderly auntie, and The Divine Miss supports me for so doing. I also do the house-running chores for the Long Island house, and TDM does those for the NYC apartment. That way we get to have both places and the auntie isn't in a home.

She's better at business than I am. I have more patience for the elderly than she has, plus I don't freak out when I have to drive more than 2mi from home. And I cook well. So it works out for all concerned.

Glad you liked the review. And it's time to archive those comments!

xoxo

skrevet af richardderus kl. 5:25 pm (EST) den Oct 18, 2009

Yup, still hopelessly devoted to Dame Agatha!

skrevet af Porua kl. 2:04 pm (EST) den Oct 18, 2009

*And* he wrote "A Boy Named Sue." Otherworldly talent, I'd say...

skrevet af BeckyJG kl. 12:12 pm (EST) den Oct 18, 2009

What about Where the Sidewalk Ends? I think it's the same photo on all his books.

skrevet af BeckyJG kl. 12:02 am (EST) den Oct 18, 2009

You are welcome! It's not that I haven't loved the last few Agatha Christie books that I've read. I'm just really stingy when it comes to giving stars to books! One and two stars are actually good according to my rating system. And another thing is that my favorite Christie detective is Miss Marple and I've read (and collected) all of the Marple books. So, now I'm reading all the Christie books that are left and of course they don't match up to the Marple ones. BTW, I have the Marple (novel) omnibus and the complete short story collection and they have all received full five stars (which is very rare in my universe!). :-)

skrevet af Porua kl. 1:09 pm (EST) den Oct 17, 2009

Funny, funny review of Walter the Farting Dog! Thank you for making me (not to mention my sister) laugh!

skrevet af Porua kl. 10:31 am (EST) den Oct 17, 2009

Thank you! I'm trying to write more, Todd's always on my case about it. :/

skrevet af devondoyle kl. 3:23 am (EST) den Oct 17, 2009

Hi Henry,

Can you correct the spelling in one of the threads I started. i cannot change the title.

Thanks

skrevet af Macumbeira kl. 3:21 am (EST) den Oct 17, 2009

Beware the other output of Mr. Kelly. He became an academic and it is unfortunately reflected in his subsequent work. But, The Scorpions has been fantastic. I will review Algiers and Scorpions soon as neither has been reviewed here.

skrevet af slickdpdx kl. 2:29 pm (EST) den Oct 16, 2009

My gut just spewed all over my computer screen after reading your invocation of odiferous canine bodily malcontent. Cackling, echoing laughs that probably scared my neighbors.

skrevet af Aeyan kl. 9:13 pm (EST) den Oct 14, 2009

Next time you feel like rummaging around in your library (or at the bookstore if you don't own one of the two), do this. Get your copy of The Satanic Bible (I'm not sure if the same photo appears in Satan Wants You), then find your copy of the Giving Tree.

Compare author photos.

I ask you, was Shel Silverstein really Anton Levay? I mean, to my knowledge nobody ever saw them in the same room at the same time.

Makes you go hmmm.

skrevet af BeckyJG kl. 3:51 am (EST) den Oct 14, 2009

Woah, my cat fart all the time. Esp. when I give them those food-brands w/ "Natural" in the title. Wooo-eeee! Stinky, right in my goddamn face. (I love my cat. Tuco. Cool little fat cat.)

(Sometimes it almost sounded like ye're suggesting folks hold their gas in, keep it a secret from the world outside their shaking sphincters what? No? right? no???)

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 1:18 am (EST) den Oct 13, 2009

...Y-.....y-yeahhhh.... Sure sure sure, right on, Dick.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 1:11 am (EST) den Oct 13, 2009

Yass, yasss, very complex. I hardly touch into what I understood after five+ hours of reading 'scholarly articles' thru my school's research center, and even after all that I still don't get a few of the stories (man, I almost felt like I should be citing them...). Hell, I hardly even touch into "The Magic Poker"! I can't believe I read SAs for fun. I feel so nerdy. And dirty. (It's just weird as the dickens how there are review articles of review articles of review articles. Don't these people have anything better to do?)

Give me about a week to send the book. I want the chance to go back to my other house on the weekend and pick up another spare story collection I've been trying forever to persuade you to read. ;)

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 2:35 am (EST) den Oct 12, 2009

Alright, alright...now...would you like my spare copy of Pricksongs & Descants?

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 12:14 am (EST) den Oct 12, 2009

Writing about short story collections is hard.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 10:18 pm (EST) den Oct 11, 2009

http://raymondfederman.blogspot.com/

(More info from his daughter. The other article has the date wrong.)

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 1:58 pm (EST) den Oct 10, 2009

I don't think that e-mail would do me any good...

I just looked on Wikipedia, and it mysteriously said '(1929-2009)' and a quick Google search led me to this...

Raymond Federman passed away just 3 days ago.

To answer yr question, the book I found was To Whom It May Concern: which, in all honesty, sounds from the synopsis a tad lame, but after flipping through it and reading a few excerpts I know it'll be a treat.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 1:47 pm (EST) den Oct 10, 2009

Enrique, Thanks so much for your comment on my review. What a wonderful new picture you have, and a very cute little girl.

skrevet af PekoeTheCat kl. 1:04 pm (EST) den Oct 10, 2009

Wow, that's almost as interesting as this new Federer book I found today. Hee hee.

No, but really, if that Cutting Edges has anything interesting to say about Bumpus or Wurlitzer, lemme know. I wouldn't mind hearing what it says about Brautigan, too.

If you really are interested in checking out those Fiction Collective authors, L. McCarthy had good things to say about all of them except B.H. Friedman (too generic; a little boring), Mimi Albert (same as before), and Simckes (same as before + incredibly lack of voice bringing it down). He compared a lot of the good ones to writers like Barth and Barthelme and Coover.

I've been reading a little bit of Jonathan Baumbach's Reruns, and, tho only 20 pages in, it's absolutely great. Exactly the sort of fiction DFW is talking about in 'E Unibus Pluram' (you may have noticed that particular essay has really influenced me since reading it, as half the garbage I spew out is almost verbatim from it): (from what I gather) it's an author recounting his life in short vignettes and he seems to constantly start blending his life in with television and movies. Very dreamlike so far. Oh, and the director of Kicking & Screaming ('90s v., not the one with Will Ferrel(l?)) and the Squid & the Whale, Noah Baumbach, is his son.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 1:57 am (EST) den Oct 10, 2009

Among them not benwaugh, makifat or papalaz! Kelly is a poet and short story writer. As far as I know, and I don't know much about this, its his only novel. Back jacket photo us a young Kelly looking like Rasputin. From inside jacket:

"a pellucid dream of the aberrant American landscape. The protagonist of this tantalizing and unique first novel is a fastidioulsy occult New York psychiatrist, but its hero is Kelvin, his Ur-Rolls Royce. When people are at last force to live in their cars, Kelvin will come highly recommended - and totally equipped..."Together he and his owner set out for Fort Lauderdale in quest of the Scorpion people (who may or may not exist). Their journey becomes a fantasy peculiar to real life after the Marquis de Sade. Carl Jung and, for that matter, Sherlock Holmes. THE SCORPIONS is an overwhelming lunge of the imagination, with extensions in myth and allegory, mysticism and science fantasy, and probably alchemy as well. Its originality is immediately apparent and alwaays sustained, a pageant of the leusive surfaces of a world gone not so much mad as blatant: obsessed with and tormented by loveless ritual, ludicrous violence and terrifying visions self-inflicted and tenaciously endured. A true story."

I added that last bit, but you get the idea.

skrevet af slickdpdx kl. 1:11 am (EST) den Oct 10, 2009

Have elected to keep the paranoid esoteric vibe twanging.

skrevet af slickdpdx kl. 12:49 am (EST) den Oct 10, 2009

Did you see Borders is selling Rick Moody's most recent for $1? In beautiful hardcover. Unfortunately, although I am melancholy, at times, I am not a Moody guy. Just finished a stunning novel - Mysteries of Algiers. Immersive is an understatement. If it can be! It is hard to select a next book to read when the most recent book was so powerful. I visited how did you know it wasn't anna or one of the other stumptowners?) because I followed a Salon link to RSH's page and then a conversation to your page. You are all so witty and engaging I had to follow the conversation! You really have achieved the "salon" ideal you remarkable freak.

skrevet af slickdpdx kl. 12:10 am (EST) den Oct 10, 2009

Yeah, yeah, that's it! A Sicilian ariostocrat {that started out as a typo, but I like it so I'm leaving it}("The Silent Duchess", anyone?) writes about her time as a post-WWII mafioso moll!

Short, lovely, poignant, and I still remember her description of her Aunt Felicita as a Gertrude-Steinie misfit among the aristos she sprang from.

skrevet af richardderus kl. 4:38 pm (EST) den Oct 9, 2009

Hot damn! And here I was always thinking John Fowles was some sort of throwback to authors of the 19th c. with a Victorian style. I have no idea why.........------

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 7:36 pm (EST) den Oct 8, 2009

Was walking out of HPB today after dropping in to quickly look for As I Lay Dying (soon need for lit. class #2), and after I decided "Fuck this, nothing to get here!" and started marching out, I was briefly looking at a billion old book spines as I was practically running out of there and suddenly just stopped on this one I'd never heard of right next to the exit called NOG, which sounded vaguely familiar (turns out to be a member on my IL list). I picked it up and saw this:

"Wow, this is some book, I mean it's more than a beautiful and heavy trip, it's also very important in an evolutionary way, showing us directions we could be moving in--hopefully another sign that the Novel of Bullshit is dead and some kind of re-enlightenment is beginning to arrive, to take hold. Rudolph Wurlitzer is really, really good, and I hope he manages to come down again soon, long enough anyhow to guide us on another one like Nog."
--Thomas Pynchon

(...and complimenting that: "This is an excellent book, full of unhealthy mental excitement." --Donald Barthelme.)

WOAHHH, what did I find?!?!

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 6:54 pm (EST) den Oct 8, 2009

I finished the Beckett book and found it to be rather enjoyable (save for a scene involving the logical means of not sucking the same stone twice and somehow failing miserably).

It's not so much of a tough read...just an involved read. Because it is all first-person narration, I found reading it partially aloud really helps it jell.

skrevet af bardsfingertips kl. 6:15 pm (EST) den Oct 8, 2009

Hey! There's a pictures of you, it seems! And a child of sorts!

skrevet af bardsfingertips kl. 6:11 pm (EST) den Oct 8, 2009

I logged into JSTOR earlier, only accessible thru my school's site as a source of 'scholarly articles' for essays, and I searched up Coover, having just finished Pricksongs & D., which isn't really important, what is is that I juts looked up Steve Katz! Hey! There are articles (2) by Larry McCaffrey on the Fiction Collective as a publishing house, praising just about all those authors I recently listed.

Will continue to read past page one.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 10:17 pm (EST) den Oct 7, 2009

Oh oh oh! I know you hate Finnegans Wake and in fact just all of post-Portrait Joyce, but do you think the group could ever do that? Perhaps when it's bigger?

FW is meant for group discussion. I'd never understand a word w/o help.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 1:36 am (EST) den Oct 7, 2009

VOOM!

I totally forgot to get back to you on the Infinite Jest deal. On being co-leader, I was about to ask you what responsibilities one is entrusted w/, but now I'm seeing "provide weekly commentary" is about it. Hmm hmm hmmmmmmmm. I'll take part in a discussion before then, and also see if I'm up for re-reading IJ so very soon after my first trip (& it really was a trip). I'm not gonna lie, beyond the brilliance of every single page, it could be fucking dense at times: extremely difficult to slog thru--esp. those endnotes that went on and on and on for pages in size 4 font.

Re-reading it w/ the group would definitely be helpful in coming to a strong understanding of it, b/c I gotta face the facts: I missed a lot.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 1:33 am (EST) den Oct 7, 2009

http://www.powells.com/review/2009_10_05

Vollmann's Imperial reviewed in Rain Taxi.

skrevet af slickdpdx kl. 6:10 pm (EST) den Oct 5, 2009

The sex with dolphins--not the fact that it's on McCaffrey's 100--is what really sold me on the book. Let me just say that we need more dolphin sex in fiction.

I can't imagine having a drunk reading party, everyone gathered round and chuckling over excerpts from Finnegans Wake. That's like that one tale you hear about Kafka laughing tears with buddies over his own fiction.

Two more obscure names from Fiction Collective: Leon Rooke & Elaine Kraf.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 11:30 pm (EST) den Oct 3, 2009

P.S. You are way too hard on poor Joyce. Finnegans Wake is hysterically funny, especially at an all night read-aloud party at which everyone gets roaringly drunk. Even without a drunken debauch, it's funny.

skrevet af urania1 kl. 11:17 pm (EST) den Oct 3, 2009

& how was that 43 Fictions by Katz? I'm pretty excited to read him.

& oh yes, this Stephen Dixon I just got has praise from both John Barth & Grace Paley! Ever read any Dixon? I saw this Frog in a bookstore 4+ years ago and have been kicking myself until last week for not getting it. DFW praised him a lot, too. (I think.)

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 2:20 am (EST) den Oct 2, 2009

Nice profile pic.

So I've been looking up a bunch of authors: I got the rest of the Katz books in this afternoon and in one of them was a list of other books also published by the same house (Fiction Collective) including guys like Russell Banks and Sukenick and Federman. The rest I'd never heard of. So I looked them up. Hardly anyone else has heard of them either, but some of them sound terrific:
Jonathan Baumbach
B.H. Friedman
Peter Spielberg
Mark Mirsk
Mimi Albert
Jerry Bumpus
Clarence Major
Marianne Hauser
Seymour Simckes
Juan M. Alonso
Thomas Glynn
George Chambers
Andree Connors

Now, a lot of them I simply couldn't find any info on no matter how hard I looked (not very hard--Amazon & LT only), but then there were a couple that are worth serious note:
Marianne Hauser's The Talking Room praised by both Steve Katz ("Nabokov, roll over," he sez) and Anais Nin.
& George Chambers. One of the books he wrote, not the one listed in Moving Parts by Katz, is called Twilight of the Bums--go ahead, look it up...notice anything? yeah! yeah! it's co-written by Raymond Federman! about Federman! and Chambers! as old bums! Ahh, you probably already knew it.
Baumbach's short stories sound terrific, too.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 12:48 am (EST) den Oct 2, 2009

I've been hiding in the shadows, and reportedly she's planning to soon read a Faulkner novel.

Absalom, Absalom! no doubt! She plots against me!

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 11:00 pm (EST) den Oct 1, 2009

Woah, my Their Eyes review was just dominated by a grandmother and a...very stale...plot...summary....hm....

THIS IS WAR.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 10:39 pm (EST) den Oct 1, 2009

HAHAHAHAHA
I love the new picture on the Salon! You make my day every day!

skrevet af tomcatMurr kl. 11:42 am (EST) den Oct 1, 2009

How can you hate on Hemingway? I've only read two books, sure, liked one, found the other 'meh,' but he gets some srs props for beating the shit out of Wallace Stevens in a drunken brawl. What a badass.\

You may have noticed, but I have my own doomsday-like (equal in shamefulness) stuff I read back in high school: a bunch of holocaust revisionist books. That's what listening to black metal gets ya!

Philip Roth will forever have those claims of sexism following him. He totally is a sexist, the silly bastard. I still need to read more by him; it's been years, but what I have read, while good overall, was underwhelming, esp. after seeing him among the 20th c. greats like Pynchon & DeLillo.

Nigel Tomm sounds like a fucking tool. I read some reviews and samples of the Blah Story and some of the Shakespeare mashups and it's masturbatory garbage: absolutely MEANINGLESS. God, fuck this guy. I already hate him.

The C&D is confusing: says first printing, but the # line goes down only to 2, so, uh, I guess by 'printing' they meant edition, and it's a second printing? Aww. Still awesome, tho. Will be a while before I get to it, as I'm doing another A-Z experiment, a fiction and a non- for each letter in this sort of order: A fiction B non- C fiction A non- B fiction C non- and then another chunk of three letters.

Started the scroll ed. of On the Road this day @ the local park, and holy shit it's boss as hell. Mucho better than the original published v. if you ask me. Have to give a speech on him next week. I'm thinking of ignoring the based-on-articles rule and just giving a general Beat history w/ lots of interesting facts and recite a bunch of poems from faves like O'Hara and Ferlinghetti.

And so on and so on and so on.

And fuck Nigel Tomm again. What an asshole. Ugh.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 11:58 pm (EST) den Sep 30, 2009

Steve Katz was born at The Bronx on May 14, 1935. Just then his family moved to Manhattan, to Washington Heights, where he attended Public School 173 and Humboldt Junior High School. He played baseball in Jayhood Wright Park, and basketball in The Schoolyard. A tage nine he had his first taste of pizza. He was a founding member of the New York Bullets social and athletic club and sported their purple and gold reversible jacket. He has flown kits and has ridden sleds. When Steve Katz was fifteen a kid stabbed his basketball with a stiletto. One year later he was sixteen.

--Taken from the back of my new 1st ed. hardback copy of Creamy & Delicious, which is now at this moment being held & admired in my free hand.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 4:09 pm (EST) den Sep 29, 2009

Also: Jesus Christ I wish I ordered Signifying Rappers before David Foster Wallace died.

Before: $0.20.
After: $42.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 10:15 pm (EST) den Sep 28, 2009

Just as I thought (or at leas to some extent).

A quick Google search reveals that one fellow published his unpublished novel entirely through Twitter in order to get the attention of a publisher (doing this feat got him a deal--based on this act, not on quality, but he seems to fancy himself as a modern Dickens[?]). A woman named Robin Abrahams may or may not be writing a "Novel in Tweets," to be honest, I can't really tell. And at least a few people are throwing the idea around.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 10:02 pm (EST) den Sep 28, 2009

Man, I was just thinkin', after seeing an advertisement for Twitter tees, how long do you think it's going to be before some asshole releases a book that's told entirely through Tweets? It's inevitable. Actually there probably already is one.

Yeah, I'm just distracting myself from my writing an essay right now. I'll give you proper responses when I actually finish this. I'm completely overloaded on information for this and am currently struggling to organize it into something comprehensible and yet only 5 or 6 pages long. Tuff stuff.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 9:55 pm (EST) den Sep 28, 2009

Is it wrong that my appreciation of Faulkner rises just a tiny bit once I read his heavy heavy heavy use of Christian symbols and themes were used not b/c he was Christian but rather that Christianity was simply part of his upbringing--and that he knew (according to essay-writing academics) it would simply provide an easy way to pull in readers who would be, for the most part, Christians themselves: able to identify? I feel a speck of shame when that sort of thing affects my opinions...

Well, back to reading essays essays and more essays! Got my own to write this evenin'. Interesting, yet boringg. Really...fucking...boring...

(Just finished an Antrim novel. Enjoyed it, sometimes a lot, but yet I felt after a certain number of pages like the underlying message(s) was bullshit and all he was really saying measured up to being nothing more than Look how pomo I can be!)

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 6:25 pm (EST) den Sep 28, 2009

The Maritime Paintings of John Chancellor : Superb !
20 reproductions with comments. Just found out at Amazon it is worth 350 _ 750 usd and I just dug it out of one of the book - boxes I still have the empty after moving into my new house ( nine yeras ago !)

skrevet af Macumbeira kl. 12:19 am (EST) den Sep 28, 2009

Thanks, EF. Recovery has been rapid. Thanks to LOTS of walking - down bikepath after bikepath, round shopping malls and parking lots. I've been busy exploring the rust belt for bookstores, and there are quite a few hidden in local small towns. Ten miles this way, thirty miles that way, one in an antique mall, one on the avenue...hither and yon. You never know what you'll find, The Secret Art of Antonin Artaud, for example, next to 1001 Beauty Tips. Go figure. I've actually been reading a lot more than I've been reviewing. I keep meaning to do a post apocalypse review comparing A Canticle For Liebowitz, Far North (Marcel Theroux), and The Road (McCarthy) but haven't got around to it. Ah well, winter is coming and it slant rhymes with writer. Peace.

-G

skrevet af Ganeshaka kl. 11:20 am (EST) den Sep 26, 2009

TTFN = Ta-Ta For Now

Sheesh, am I that old?!

skrevet af richardderus kl. 9:49 am (EST) den Sep 26, 2009

Federman, Federer, it's all the same old rancid wheel of cheese. Concrete poetry, ugh.

TTFN

skrevet af richardderus kl. 1:34 pm (EST) den Sep 25, 2009

I absolutely loved Grace Paley. I haven't read a short story collection this good since the posthumous collection of Breece D'J Pancake's stories.

(If you ever want to share addresses, I'll send you a copy of that one, too. Damn good collection.)

Give me more (names)!

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 9:55 pm (EST) den Sep 24, 2009

@ your shit lit collection: Why have you read all these no-name prophecy/doomsday/whatever/2112 bullshit books from the '70s and '80s?

It's kinda disturbing.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 8:56 pm (EST) den Sep 24, 2009

I'd never see my deposit, or let alone the light of another day again! -funny!

Is this Jay the same Jay as wrote a Journal?

My youger brother lived at a 666 address in Chicago. tHE WORST OF IT WAS DRUNK TEENAGERS coming over in the dead of night and cutting the adddress down.

skrevet af slickdpdx kl. 6:25 pm (EST) den Sep 24, 2009

You *liked* "666", EF? *Liked* it?

Really? Or was that typed with an obnoxiously quirked brow, indicating the level of your soi-disant intellectual contempt for his bourgeois ramblings?

Please say yes to the latter, or my preconceived notions will need adjusting that I simply don't feel up to.

xoxo

skrevet af richardderus kl. 2:56 pm (EST) den Sep 24, 2009

Quick comment: "Besides, with the death of David Foster Wallace, so died anyone relevant (excepting Dave Eggers) still freshly experimenting and moving forward in the discipline..."

Weeeeelllllll, Dave Eggers really doesn't fit along with these guys. To an extent, stylistically and, uh, well...stylistically, he does, but his writing is also a bit on the light side. Not too deep. Never requires any sort of research to extract an underlying meaning to it. (Plus, half of it's biography by this point.) Like a fast foodified v. of DFW, maybe?

Well, do like your new profile. Much neater. I need to hurry up and drop the lists that make up 99% of mine. Flippin' lists, man...yeah....

Speaking of Creamy & Delic.: Yeah...yeah...only bought that...right. Koff koff. Don't look now.* I really went overboard tonight on ordering books that have been eluding my clutches/eyes for years. (Boy, let me tell you, C&D was expensive, too. Like $16 w/ shipping.)

Haw haw, thx for the kind words on my Faulkner, but come on, it ain't so great (I've shared it w/ a few friends--most refused to read it due to length, or thought it was a rambling mess in need of paragraph breaks [I think one didn't even notice it was only 3 sentences...])! Had a blast doing it, and today I learn I gotta write yet another essay on that sucker for my lit. class! yarghhh! At least by this point it'll come off easy...

(Just finished Hurston's book, and TBH, I wasn't really planning to write anything over that, but your friend Mr. Chock-Full seems to have requested it; ideas are now circulating--a little bit. On that book: Didn't really leave much of an impression, and I kind of skipped most of the classes we discussed it in. Not bad, just...you know...there. I'm still trying to find a really kickass female writer to compliment my 100% [?] male list [!] of favorites--SO I'M STARTING GRACE PALEY! If I remember right, she was yr suggestion!)

I had read yr Body Artist review earlier that (21st) day, and I'm glad you finally found a DeLillo novel(la) strong enough to leave such an impression on you.

*You have some secret method of keeping up w/ friends' updates, huh? I only really link to my own profile; maybe I should be really hunting around elsewhere, or actually using the connections page, whatever it is you do. And along these lines, maybe I should start using the flippin' message boards here, rather than the generic books board on IMDb where anyone with remotely similar tastes to my own come off as academic and boring and/or young and boring and even more naive than myself.

That's it for the newer stuff; now a reply to yr last post:

How's cleaning up your library going? Get any done @ all? On DFW's IJ, I picked up a 1st ed. too about 6 months prior to his hanging himself, and I even remember picking up (I paid $25) that meeting DFW and getting this beautiful goddamn' book signed is something I would be accomplishing in my lifetime. "He's young, he'll live and write so much more!" slipped thru my mind as my eyes glazed over in these selfish imaginings of our perfect and heavenly meeting. God, I can't believe the fucker killed himself. What a dick. I'm so happy I finally got round to Supposedly Fun Thing--adored the hell out of it. So very entertaining, and he...was just so brilliant. I think one of my new fillings is loose, or something. Man, this thing's pounding, painful right now. Anyway, fug, I wish I could find a 1st ed. of Broom. Those things were super expensive even pre-author death....yep...ayuh.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 3:21 am (EST) den Sep 23, 2009

i appreciated your review of THE BODY ARTIST..given that DeLillo is one of my bellwether writers...UNDERWORLD and WHITE NOISE are essentials..though i own ,only the former...which is enough

props to you, Sir Freeque

Jude

*oops, we have 56 books on common...i swoon, i gasp...i chortle*

skrevet af jdthloue kl. 2:35 pm (EST) den Sep 22, 2009

Wow what a review on the body Artist.
thumbs up from this Belgian

skrevet af Macumbeira kl. 12:38 pm (EST) den Sep 21, 2009

Now that you're in corduroy, I'll at least here the "zwoop zwoop" of your genes as you sneak up on me....

skrevet af richardderus kl. 9:43 am (EST) den Sep 19, 2009

My current flame has been saying I am 31 since my last birthday. (I think he's a keeper) :)

skrevet af anna_in_pdx kl. 7:39 pm (EST) den Sep 17, 2009

Thank you! I was having an interview, actually. Hmmmm.

skrevet af BeckyJG kl. 1:22 pm (EST) den Sep 17, 2009

I'm still "friends" with two of your sock puppets! :) Hope you are loving M&M as much as I am. What's not to like, right?

skrevet af anna_in_pdx kl. 11:08 am (EST) den Sep 17, 2009

I hope my pôst made you laugh.

I was quiet confused when I saw that pic for the first time because everybody is
focusing on the magical mumbo jumbo, the platonic love story and the Jesus - Pontius relationship and everybody forgets that there are quiet some sexy scenes too in M&M

The picture is indeed me, but when I was much younger. My mam caught me to give met a good washing and my dad took the pic ! : )

skrevet af Macumbeira kl. 3:12 am (EST) den Sep 17, 2009

nothing gets erased; it's archived. Would you please relax, please?

:-)

skrevet af EnriqueFreeque kl. 7:24 pm (EST) den Sep 16, 2009

http://macumbeira-macumbeira.blogspot.co...

skrevet af Macumbeira kl. 7:06 pm (EST) den Sep 16, 2009

Thanks (about the review). I didn't celebrate this weekend, aside from having lunch with my daughter like we do every weekend. But you'll be glad to know that in a burst of energy I did finally clean the gutters on my house - how exhilarating - almost an out of body experience.

skrevet af solla kl. 8:24 pm (EST) den Sep 13, 2009

Salon page is looking good! I like "du peuple pour le peuple"

I will do a review of Sadika's Way very soon.... Thanks again for sending it to me!

skrevet af anna_in_pdx kl. 11:59 am (EST) den Sep 10, 2009

Le Salon Litteraire par le Peuple pour le Peuple.

it sounds a bit screwy like this. It doensn't really translate well.
Better options would be :

Le Salon populaire litteraire ( or )
Le Salon litteraire du peuple pour le peuple

skrevet af Macumbeira kl. 2:26 am (EST) den Sep 10, 2009

Co leading Les Miserables : ofcourse , i'll be honored and I will read it in french for you.

I am "in" like Errol Flynn

skrevet af Macumbeira kl. 1:34 am (EST) den Sep 10, 2009

"Euphonius" - how lovely sounding that word was in your textual analysis of a non-euphonian novel.

Is the Literary LA in hand being read? I can't wait for a review of that. I always intend to actually read more about my city, but somehow get distracted. Chicago and Harry Dresden have been occupying me too much of late.

skrevet af Aeyan kl. 11:42 pm (EST) den Sep 9, 2009

sounds a bit communistic, but that is the point I guess

skrevet af Macumbeira kl. 6:06 pm (EST) den Sep 9, 2009

Par le peuple pour le peuple.

skrevet af Macumbeira kl. 5:57 pm (EST) den Sep 9, 2009

"Dick Misanthropic?"

Arellano's "Ask a Mexican" is some tee-riffic stuff. Enjoy.

xoxo
RMD

skrevet af richardderus kl. 10:44 pm (EST) den Sep 8, 2009

Transsexuals?! There is NO such thing! None! Certainly not on LT! As Archimedes said to that Roman soldier, "Dude, don't mess with my math!"

skrevet af LolaWalser kl. 8:59 am (EST) den Sep 5, 2009

You added a Wodehouse book! Brilliant! Have you ever read anything by him?

I sent the edit of your first chapter, btw. I'm curious what your thoughts will be.

skrevet af wisewoman kl. 10:53 am (EST) den Sep 3, 2009

Well, I'm devastated that you don't like tomatoes, since that seems to be the only thing that really grows in my garden. Corn didn't. Even squash doesn't. I've had a few pea pods but not this year. Avocados I haven't tried. However, if you should overcome the technical problems, I promise to supply the guacamole.

skrevet af solla kl. 9:41 pm (EST) den Sep 2, 2009

Oooh, I see Erewhon! I've been thinking about picking up a copy. Forster wrote a little essay about it--"A Book that Has Influenced Me," I think, was the title.

skrevet af Medellia kl. 10:13 am (EST) den Sep 2, 2009

Do you think you could possible clone yourself, maybe in miniature, and hire out as a promoter? I could use the encouragement. I could pay in fresh tomatoes which are ripening in my garden right now. They wouldn't make it through the mail, though, so I'm afraid the mini clone would have to come here.

Seriously, I read the description of Exiting Nirvana and it does sound very interesting. It's been years since I read the Siege, and I'd like to know what's happened since.

skrevet af solla kl. 11:02 pm (EST) den Aug 31, 2009

I've only now noticed the points-of-light character of your visitor's map. What a nice comment.

A pet peeve of mine in the realms of fiction writing is the mystic-bond-between-twins trope in lots of romantic/horror/supernatural writing. OhfaGawdsake. I read an historical novel by Cecelia Holland recently, disappointed to find that festering in an otherwise ~meh~ book.

I think I am become Death. I can kill anything Oppenheimer's babys leave behind with my taciturn testiness.

Hug your wife from me.
RMD

skrevet af richardderus kl. 11:33 pm (EST) den Aug 30, 2009

Is that me ? You mean the picture ? Yes ofcourse ! Altough some people think it is Vito Dumas, the Argentinian who was the first solo navigators to go with his yacht "Leigh" trough the roaring fourties. The picture looks like it is taken aboard his boat during that trip but it is a studio picture.
I think, you can find the book in my library

skrevet af Macumbeira kl. 12:52 am (EST) den Aug 30, 2009

Well, the first time I went to graduate school - in 1973, it was in Psychology, and my hope was to be a child therapist. I did do a summer practicum working in a classroom that included a few autistic kids. Psychology then was dominated by behaviorists, although not where I had the practicum. It was the Psychiatric Day Treatment Center, and it was more based on psychoanalytic beliefs. Ironically, there was one girl in the classroom that I worked in, who would open her mouth as if to scream, and the therapists were encouraged to scream for her, if we saw that, to let her know it was okay. Meantime, she lived at Waverly children's home, a behaviorist hotbed, and I later learned from someone who worked there, that they had put her through a regimen to "extinguish" her screaming. Anyway, I got a masters, but not the PhD you need to be a clinical psychologist. While I was considering going on to get a doctorate I kept getting the stomach flu, and finally got it that I couldn't stomach any more grad school (much later I got an MFA in painting, but that was totally different). So, anyway, I spent many years doing low paid social service work, some with troubled kids, before getting a research job at Portland State University where I could take classes for a reduced cost and got a bachelor in computer science. It's sad that that pays so much better than anything I'd done before, about 3 times as much. So, aside from 2 years in Teach for America and 2 years after I got back from doing that when the dot com bubble had burst and I couldn't get a job, I've done that over the last 14 years. As a result I was finally able to buy a house a couple of years ago. Now I'm trying to pay it off before I retire. However, enough of that. Here is a poem that is about an autistic kid from the Day Treatment Center:

Lisa
-Scientists say that conversation is a dance. Body movements of the listener, such as eye blinks and hand gestures, are synchronized with the speaker's speech rhythms and/or body movements. But this hasn’t been found to be true of children with autism.

In a tea shop you’d twirl the cups.
In a shoe store you’d stack the boxes high.
A pawn shop would make you sing; you’d

line up crystal and tap to make it ping,
and run away when it all goes falling,
and hide your face when it all goes falling.

I try to catch your eyes; you look at air.
Scientists map the dance of words,
speak, follow, bodies move in space and rhyme,

but you don’t dance. You can’t.
Lisa, I speak your name, you look at air.
How may I find you, let you rest,

sailor home from the sea.
The cups spin out. The boxes crash
and crystal breaks. Your mouth opens

but no sound comes.
How can I find, a rhythm larger
or smaller, lullaby, a dance for you,

Wynken, Blinken, and Nod,
that old soft shoe,
me who can not dance, who has no rhythm,

no style, all awkward stumbling limbs.
No choice then, but to step the dance
that is no dance and sing the song that

is no song, and lift you high upon my shoulders.
For, I can’t dance, but how can I not dance,
Lisa, for you.

You move as I move; my hands hold your legs,
your arms cradle my head, till I forget
legs, arms, foot, knee, elbow, and all else but

you and me and the dance. And just
then you laugh gentle as sea foam.
You bend your head down to see.

Your smile is upside down, your eyes are upside down.
your upside down eyes, green as the sea, your
eyes look straight into my eyes.

skrevet af solla kl. 11:27 pm (EST) den Aug 29, 2009

I really liked your The Diving Bell and the Butterfly review. Have you ever read The Siege by Clara Park. It was written a very long time ago when Autism was first becoming known as a condition, but I think it is very good.

skrevet af solla kl. 2:15 am (EST) den Aug 29, 2009

Thanks so much for the book! It arrived today. I am not sure when I will actually read it given the M&M read coming up... you are doing the M&M with us aren't you? We missed you during Tomcat Murr.

skrevet af anna_in_pdx kl. 9:55 pm (EST) den Aug 27, 2009

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