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Mar 22, 2005 21:17

Art Rec: The Battle Victor, by teawithvoldyTook the kids to the swimming pool at the gym today. Swam for 30 minutes before some kid pooped in the pool and everyone was evacuated. A thirty minute shock treatment of the pool turned into 12 hours when the poop was more extensive than originally thought. Yuck ( Read more... )

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caalan March 23 2005, 05:45:35 UTC

I save those types of slow-start books for my nighttime reading and try to conquer a chapter a day. *grin* I've read a few that were so tiring and yet in the end I was glad to have read it. Toni Morrison is one of those authors for me. Oh, and Anne Rice in later years...sheez, we all now know the color, texture, and heft of that damned teacup she's holding can we MOVE on? :)

I still hold true to Donna Tartt if you haven't read it. The Secret History has one of the most amazing first lines of any book I've read. It even turns the murder mystery plot on its duff but giving it up to you right then and there.

While we are speaking on books...I finally reread Pride and Prejudice. Partly because you'd mentioned it a time or two and partly because it's seems to be done and redone in some of my favorite films. *sigh* What I had no patience for in high school now reads like written seduction. I'll have to see the A&E series now.

I couldn't help but laugh at the Pool Incident. "Floater!"

cheeringcharm March 23 2005, 17:20:17 UTC

Isn't P&P great? It really ruined all other Jane Austen for me. I couldn't get through Sense and Sensibility, and it took me 100 pages or more to really start enjoying Emma. I put Mansfield Park down, too. I'm thinking of picking that back up.

I'm about to go to the online library catalog and search for the author you mentioned. Thanks for the rec!

mel

chezsimon March 24 2005, 01:29:55 UTC

Sorry for butting in, but I can't resist book talk. Have you read Austen's Persuasion? The maturity and wisdom of that book rivals P&P. It was also written in her later years. There's a wonderful film with Ciaran Hinds and Amando Root (or Boot) as well.

connaka March 23 2005, 12:23:29 UTC

Ew.

Ever since an incident at the Y, I have never gone in a public swimming pool again. Apparently, there was tuna and some other white stuff floating around at the bottom of the pool. *gags* God. so gross! You might not think that that's worse than poop, but still. Never. again.

madlori March 23 2005, 14:42:07 UTC

Awww. I should be thanking YOU, you did me the favor.

I have been so distracted by work and things that I'm seriously considering taking a few days off so I can finish my rewrite. I NEED TO FINISH IT!

cheeringcharm March 23 2005, 17:21:02 UTC

And I can't wait until you do! :)

drewcypher March 23 2005, 16:11:29 UTC

I liked A Prayer for Owen Meany... so much better than the movie, Simon Birch. It is a good book, but the same you things you didn't like, I didn't like. If he has such a tiny voice, why the CAPSLOCK?

I never saw the movie, The Cider House Rules, but I thought the book was terrific. Ms RCdrew is the big Irving fan; she's read about everything he's done, but could not get through A Widow for One Year and had a hell of a time with Son of the Circus.

After reading The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, I've started reading McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, edited by Michael Chabon. It's a collection of various macabre short stories, kind of a "Weird Tales" for adults, or "Night Gallery" on paper. It's nice because you read a tale, 10-20 pp, and you're done.

cheeringcharm March 23 2005, 17:22:42 UTC

Yeah, the caps lock thing didn't work for me. Of course, I have to remember this was written and published before CAPS LOCK took on internet meaning of yelling. But, still. I think it's a weak literary device to remind us that he talks weird.

Did you like Kavalier and Clay? I love that book.

drewcypher March 23 2005, 22:38:34 UTC

I thought Kavalier and Clay was brilliant. It was so vivid and evocative of that era. I thought it was tremendous. Loved the story, the characterizations, the writing... it was a perfect package. I also thought, "they're going to make this into a movie and fuck it up..." Some kind of lame buddy movie, and of course, they'll excise the homosexuality. Turn into a movie about comic book writers.

danielerin March 23 2005, 17:53:17 UTC

Er, I think that was me. I had mentioned it to weird4hanson. Sorry. I loved it. Loved, loved, loved it. And I loved Cider House Rules.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.