Knew when to stop, too.
I mainly listen to music on the bus. When I was in the army, and would spend an hour and a half in a bus every day, I read a lot of music blogs. Or maybe not a lot, but enough, I guess, to keep me in new music.
One of them, Largehearted Boy (named after a Guided By Voices song, like indie music blogs tend to be), kept making references to two books: The Raw Shark Texts, and Fun Home, A Family Tragicomic. I wanted both of them, basically since I've heard so much about them it was kinda hammered into my head they were good. I was also disappointed with how I couldn't download either of them.
The Raw Shark Texts, okay. That's an actual book. It's a lot of effort to OCR a book and people are very particular about what they do it to. Mostly classics, science fiction and fantasy, and anything that has to do with sex. (Though that's just part of a general rule stating that anything that has to do with sex winds up on the internet.)
My mom bought it in the end, on my recommendation, and ended up enjoying it more than me. It's got interesting ideas, but the execution is pretty second-rate. You just get to a point where you feel nothing interesting can happen any longer. And the ending, as Wikipedia puts it, is a retelling of the end of Jaws.
Fun Home, though, is a graphic novel. It won a bunch of awards, too. Comics are much easier to scan, and most of the big ones recently published do get scanned. And I'm used to downloading them. So I was surprised when I couldn't find Fun Home.
Well, a couple of weeks ago I did find it, in the end. I no longer cared very much, what with the blog being a faint memory and my disappointment with Raw Shark Texts, so I promptly forgot about it until today. When I saw someone was, in turn, downloading it from me.
I guess I'm kinda disappointed in it too. I'm not finished, but it's not really anything new. Lots of people make graphic novels about their youth. I was also expecting humor from the words 'fun' and 'comic' in the title, but 'comic' turned out to relate only to the form, and 'fun' was short for 'funeral'.
I gotta give it props, though, for quoting my favorite part from The Great Gatsby, which I might have posted about but am too lazy to check:
There's a scene in The Great Gatsby where a drunken party guest is carried away by the discovery that the volumes in Gatsby's library are not cardboard fakes.
"What thoroughness, what realism!" He exclaims. "Knew when to stop, too. Didn't cut the pages!"
Speaking of comics everybody download this because I spent way too much time making the text readable and the person I did it for didn't like it.
One of them, Largehearted Boy (named after a Guided By Voices song, like indie music blogs tend to be), kept making references to two books: The Raw Shark Texts, and Fun Home, A Family Tragicomic. I wanted both of them, basically since I've heard so much about them it was kinda hammered into my head they were good. I was also disappointed with how I couldn't download either of them.
The Raw Shark Texts, okay. That's an actual book. It's a lot of effort to OCR a book and people are very particular about what they do it to. Mostly classics, science fiction and fantasy, and anything that has to do with sex. (Though that's just part of a general rule stating that anything that has to do with sex winds up on the internet.)
My mom bought it in the end, on my recommendation, and ended up enjoying it more than me. It's got interesting ideas, but the execution is pretty second-rate. You just get to a point where you feel nothing interesting can happen any longer. And the ending, as Wikipedia puts it, is a retelling of the end of Jaws.
Fun Home, though, is a graphic novel. It won a bunch of awards, too. Comics are much easier to scan, and most of the big ones recently published do get scanned. And I'm used to downloading them. So I was surprised when I couldn't find Fun Home.
Well, a couple of weeks ago I did find it, in the end. I no longer cared very much, what with the blog being a faint memory and my disappointment with Raw Shark Texts, so I promptly forgot about it until today. When I saw someone was, in turn, downloading it from me.
I guess I'm kinda disappointed in it too. I'm not finished, but it's not really anything new. Lots of people make graphic novels about their youth. I was also expecting humor from the words 'fun' and 'comic' in the title, but 'comic' turned out to relate only to the form, and 'fun' was short for 'funeral'.
I gotta give it props, though, for quoting my favorite part from The Great Gatsby, which I might have posted about but am too lazy to check:
There's a scene in The Great Gatsby where a drunken party guest is carried away by the discovery that the volumes in Gatsby's library are not cardboard fakes.
"What thoroughness, what realism!" He exclaims. "Knew when to stop, too. Didn't cut the pages!"
Speaking of comics everybody download this because I spent way too much time making the text readable and the person I did it for didn't like it.