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Reading this summer
Jackie Blue:
--- Quote from: David Foster Wallace ---One reason fiction writers seem creepy in person is that by vocation they really are voyeurs.
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SIG'D SO HARD
pilsner:
What I done? I've created a monster. A Monster.
Phaedra:
--- Quote from: jimbunny on 01 Jul 2008, 01:58 ---Guys I just read the first few pages of Titus Groan before I left for work tonight.
Summer reading is looking up.
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Along with Gormenghast, these are my favourite books ever. I've never been brave enough to re-read them, though.
pilsner:
--- Quote from: Anyways on 05 Aug 2008, 17:35 ---The Road is excellent, well worth your money/time.
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I don't know if I'd say it was excellent but it was definitely worth reading. The only way I could conceive of a movie based on this book working is if zombie Ingmar Bergman directed and one of the optional popcorn toppings was the Sweet Embrace of Death. However I see that instead, zombie Yul Brenner is directing, and his two projects involved Nick Cave.
Which means that Nick Cave will have a cameo in the movie, perhaps as "Desperate Man in Cannibals' Cellar With Legs Burnt Off" or "Roasted Baby on Spit". Oh, I just can't wait.
pilsner:
Uh-huh. I finished, then spent the last hour clutching a bottle of scotch and looking for sleeping pills.
EDIT: Chabon writes in the New York Review of Books that the book hews much closer to the gothic horror of Lovecraft than it does to the typical post-apocalypse novel. It's a literary haunted house for parents. Which leads me to believe that this all started as an elaborate revenge plot when McCarthy didn't get a scone at a PTA meeting.
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