Comments | mrspleen: this makes me feel a little better about being a crazy shut-in

mrspleen

this makes me feel a little better about being a crazy shut-in

Nov 06, 2007 21:47

Comments 7

radioronin November 7 2007, 17:49:45 UTC

This is fun mostly see what you haven't read yet -- you make me want to read more Austin. I'd definitely recommend both Cloud Atlas and White Teeth.

you know, just like Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now mrspleen November 8 2007, 04:58:20 UTC

(clearing throat in disbelief at what I am about to say)

Well, you really do need to read the original Austen to fully understand how it applies to Bridget Jones.

Ahem.

Moving on.

Re: you know, just like Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now radioronin November 8 2007, 14:21:48 UTC

Funny, my sister says the same thing (except for the whole Conrad reference).

Do you even want to know how long it took me, already having read Pride and Prejudice TWICE, to really get the joke in the line: "It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting 'Cathy' and banging your head against a tree."

I'm such a waste of an education.

gablog2 November 7 2007, 19:34:48 UTC

Yup, you rock! Somehow I knew you were going to have read most of these.

If you want to borrow the Blind Assassin, I enjoyed that and have it. Life of Pi is alright, too, I can lend you that as well.

radioronin November 7 2007, 20:18:15 UTC

Blind Assassin was really good (she somehow seems to go on a cycle where everother book is awesome and the ones inbetween are unreadable...) Alias Grace was my most recent favorite of hers. I hear Oryx and Crake was good too. Have you read it?

gablog2 November 8 2007, 03:38:26 UTC

I haven't. I ewmwmbwe (wow, check out that massive wordlong typo...but i think you can deciper it) liking Cat's Cradle, and of course Handmaid's Tale. There was one...forgetting the name...aha, the Edible Woman, that weirded me out.

radioronin November 8 2007, 14:23:25 UTC

Cat's Cradle really confused me. I'd definitely recommend 'Alias Grace' - historical fiction based on a real servant girl who murdered her employers. Gruesome and literary, what could be better?

An that typo is awesome to say out loud. It's like some central African lanuguage or something...