Latex lizzie
Well-Known Member
reallly? the rat chapter just made me wanna stop reading.talking heads get a mention in there someplace if im not mistaken though so ten points for that!
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All those lists of products that were so boring, ( I realise the obsessionnlgbbbblth said:American Psycho
I think everyone does. When he goes into a digression about huey lewis and the news for example after he murders someone, I tend to flick to the next horrid murder scene. I wish Brett Easton Ellis would get some new ideas though - surely the majority of his readership, not to mention his publishing house, will soon cop on that all his books are about dissafected youth / serial killers / dissafected serial killers / dissafected serial killing vampires on trans-atlantic cruises etc etcsarah said:I ended up skipping loads of bits and just reading the gorey bits.
why, oh why was kevin spacey allowed to play Quoyle? WHY?????Mumblin Deaf Ro said:Last 10-15 years?
Shipping News (Annie Proulx) or The Sprtswriter (Richard ford) would be two of my favourites
I avoided seeing the film for that exact reason, in my head Quoyle waskirstie said:why, oh why was kevin spacey allowed to play Quoyle? WHY?????
It's just so wrong.
fucking worst casting eversarah said:I avoided seeing the film for that exact reason, in my head Quoyle was
pretty much the opposite of Kevin Spacey.
What a great book though, wasn't too kean on her other ones
though accordian crimes was a bore.
The two big ones for me are "money" by martin amis and don de lillo's "white noise".. though they're both closer to 20 years old now.spectraljanitor said:so what peoples fave novels then from say the last 10 or 15 years?
i do be liking douglas couplands "life after god".... its got that entire brevity of communication thing that jane was talking about....
God I'd forgotten about close Range some really beautiful stories in thatMumblin Deaf Ro said:The shipping news film was so awful. Shows how it's a bad idea to turn a narrative novel, as opposed to a plot-driven one, into a film.
Her other books are a mixed bag: accordian crimes is probably the weakest; ace in the hole is full of good yarns; postcards is pretty dark (in a good way); but i reckon the short stories - close range - is well worth a read.
I don't think I really liked The Shipping News, though I read it so long ago I can hardly remember ... I thought the 'there are seven women in eveyone's life - the tall and dark woman, etc.' thing was stupid. I don't think I warmed to anyone in the book, particularly, so that'd be handicap to me really loving it. Maybe I'd like it more now that I've grown upMumblin Deaf Ro said:Shipping News (Annie Proulx) or The Sprtswriter (Richard ford) would be two of my favourites
Really? What did the interviews say that turned you against it?egg_ said:I don't think I really liked The Shipping News, though I read it so long ago I can hardly remember ... I thought the 'there are seven women in eveyone's life - the tall and dark woman, etc.' thing was stupid. I don't think I warmed to anyone in the book, particularly, so that'd be handicap to me really loving it. Maybe I'd like it more now that I've grown up
I liked The Sportswriter, but ... ah I dunno, it was definitely worthwhile, but it didn't quite rock my world. The main character was a little too neurotic, I enjoyed his company in small doses only
The Life of Pi did rock my world, but I've turned against it a bit after reading some interviews with the author
I got the impression that the book was a kind of self-conscious philosophical experiment rather than a story. The author deliberately made the lifeboat story less and less believable as he went, in order to drive home his point that we want to believe certain things regardless of the factssarah said:Really? What did the interviews say that turned you against it?
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