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mrjoegangles:
--- Quote from: Uber Ritter on 23 Apr 2008, 22:43 ---I don't know if I understand how the Princess Bride is satire (parody perhaps). And wonderful though it is, I don't think that it can beat out Huckleberry Finn for the best satire since Swift.
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That's because you didn't read the book. He spends almost half the book trying to convince you that he didn't write it, that Morgenstern really exists, Florin and Guilder are real places, and that he is just writing an abridged version of "Morgenstern's" classic Satire of European royalty's.
Its also in its own way a Satire of the folly of its own readers. At one point Goldman talks about a reuinon scene that he wrote for the book and wanted to add to Mogerstern's Monstrosity, but was shut down by the editors.... But not to worry cause you can send him a letter and he will mail you a free copy of the chapter. Instead countless fans got letters talking about he legal battle he and Mogenstern's estate went through and how he is not able to publish the reunion scene because of this.
Now, just for those of you that werent paying attention earlier.... Its his own book. There is no Morgenstern. Basically he just wanted to see how many fans were stupid enough to write a letter for a scene that he could have put in himself cause he's the actual author. And his excuse is just another joke to play on those same hundreds of fans who can't understand that its all a joke.
He also used the same excuse for the delays in "adapting" Buttercup's Baby, the second book which may never get released.... Or which may just be yet another prank he is pulling on his fans.
rofflesaurusrex:
trainspotting was a gnarly movie. It showed a group of scottish kids struggle on an of heroin addictions. Overdosing, Freebasing, Buying, SelLiNg, InteNse baby DEaths. ITs a Must see
Ikrik:
Trainspotting the novel was incredible.....and by that I mean it was incredibly hard to read. But still an amazing book, highly rewarding to get through fourty or fifty pages.
I'm thinking of getting into some Grindhouse movies.....can anyone suggest some good (relatively) ones?
TheFuriousWombat:
The novel is interesting b/c it's written with a Scottish dialect which does indeed make it hard to read/understand a lot of the slang but it's also really cool. For the literary theoreticians amongst you, allow me to suggest Franco Moretti's "Atlas of the European Novel." It's a great book, incredibly well written, which explores fictionalized geographies in 19th century literature (London according to Dickens, Paris according to Balzac) and also looks at novels of exploration/colonialism, the picaresque and Russian literature. The overall result is Moretti suggesting that physical space may well be the hero and main determinant of cultural history. This could be a subject approached with an air of tiresome academia but Moretti is a very funny, charming and insightful author, making this not only really interesting but something very enjoyable to read as well.
Dimmukane:
I'm still unsure as to what you mean by Grindhouse, so I'm just going to assume you mean bad horror movies of the 70's and 80's. Bruno Mattei is a solid bet. He had this one movie, Hell of the Living Dead (Virus here in the states), that had about 5 minutes comprised of just nature footage spliced with zombies because he figured he might as well use it since he paid for it. They even borrowed Goblin and redid the Dawn of the Dead soundtrack.
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