04.21.2015, 09:17 AM | #3901 | |
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I can't remember where I read the story--maybe apocryphal--about Hem and Fitz comparing penis size in Paris. Probably not Movable feast.
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A character isn't even the book. A few years ago someone told me they didn't like Madame Bovary because of how Emma neglected her child. ??? I guess if a character is "bad" (morally) the book is "bad" (in terms of quality)? I don't know how some people read. |
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04.21.2015, 10:33 AM | #3903 | |
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I think there is something in Movable Feast about that, actually. I'll check my copy tonight.
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Seems our college library has this book! I'll have to check this out.
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yes yes yes! me too. i could never take fitzgerald seriously after that-- i mean as a person, not as a writer. a weepy drunk. hilarious. Quote:
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how do they read? they don't. i didn't even know you were supposed to like emma. i mean, everyone in the novel is worse than her but that doesn't make her good. Quote:
you're in for a real treat. how does he go: "seems to me that caling a movie house a theatre is like calling an undertaker a mortician". or something like that. i'm paraphrasing from memory. hilarious. |
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04.21.2015, 11:49 AM | #3906 |
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Nabokov's humor is one of his qualities that gives him the edge over Updike, for me.
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i know - not exactly flattering....!! also I already have a ridiculous surname so i would have sounded like a cartoon character
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04.22.2015, 08:32 AM | #3909 | |
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close, but it's cheese related rather than bread related
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Zelda Gruyere!
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poetic / imaginative license. i just went for a good sound. i never thought i'd be so close! anyway, not to worry. there are some great cheeses! now-- you should start drawing that comic. it could be awesome! |
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eye-opening :O
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04.27.2015, 06:11 AM | #3916 | |
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for class:
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04.27.2015, 08:39 AM | #3917 | |
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so much of what she reviews sounds awfully crappy, though. There's a boatload of great "minority" fiction writers out there ( I use the term as she does, even though I would actually put them in the majority, if she says the word to mean, not white fiction writers). |
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04.27.2015, 08:44 AM | #3918 | |
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I dunno. I thought this applied so much better to music, especially the scenes most of us dig. |
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i don't know why it would sound crappy. i would agree that being a "minority" doesn't make one a good writer (as college courses showed me), but there are so many "majority" writers who are crap but are read simply because they feed into what people already know (this is the cause of my american literature fatigue in general). as for the reviewed stuff-- i was curious about that indonesian scifi. Quote:
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i looved the first book. the 2nd one was more depressing. growing up sucks. |
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We had to study 'poems from other cultures' at school and while i know for a fact there are some absolutely amazing poets from other cultures (obviously!) the ones we studied were SO crap which is just insulting really. (although to be fair the english poets we studied were also largely crap) Here is the anthology for anyone interested - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AQA_Anthology I seem to remember presents from my aunts in Pakistan being particularly bad. Quote:
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