Brian's comments
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Brian's comments from the fiction files redux group.
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got it. will tackle it next year.
i almost bought a fat hunter s thompson book but it was too heavy... i think it was the complete gonzo papers in one volume. fat is the new thin. plus i'm better at keeping track of things if they're equal to or less than my number of fingers (i still have all 10 as of this writing).
i'm going with 'fat' books... infinite jest, the complete works of edgar a poe, and a beckett trilogy. not sure what else. there will be more else's no doubt about that.
ultra-nerdy-talk is good talk. hi jimmy.
Interesting David... I'm also a member of LibraryThing and take part in their early reviewers program. Of course living on another planet means I'm not eligible for most of the 'give-aways' but recently I was and I did win a book. It looked interesting. I immediately emailed the author and told him not to mail me the complimentary copy. Instead I ordered it from Amazon. I may not have ever come across this writer, promising looking too, if it wasn't for LibraryThing. Turns out he teaches at my old university. Sites like these do work to a degree. Not sure that degree can be measured and not sure if it's necessary to measure. But quite a few books I've read I read because I stumbled across them here and there.
Here's a short story by Tom Franklin. I read his book of short stories called Poachers. Ben is reading it. Ben mentioned this story. I searched the title in Google to refresh my memory. The entire short story is online. Enough of my clunky short sentences. Here, everyone can read it and then adopt a cat from the spca or something... http://www.storysouth.com/thicket/storie...
Pavel wrote: "And is Proust really "second only to LOTR" on some list? Who did they survey?"Yeah... that's what I thought too.
And I don't think this article was meant to be taken very seriously. If it was, it's not.
and don't forget Dostoevsky...
James wrote: "I'm going to read this, and dig further into the story of the museum, but I'm intrigued, especially because it's from someone of his stature. This type of real-world/fictional narrative mash-up ha..."I've got the book. It's a real book with pages and a cover too. The realism is uncanny. When do you want to crack it open?
thought this was interesting. it forgives me...http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/n...
this might be better suited for my simple mind.
http://www.readingproust.com/prcomix.htm
I thought this was interesting.
http://elseplace.blogspot.com/2008/09/mu...
Maybe some of you will too.
welcome sandra... don't worry about breaking rules, i don't think we have any.excellent take on the egg. hope to see more of your thoughts here, well, not just here but in the other threads too.
I'm frying bacon and will be in charge of syrup.
Happy Birthday Mr Adman!
Oct 14, 2009 07:42PM
http://improbable.com/ig/winners/the 1995 prize for literature:
LITERATURE
David B. Busch and James R. Starling, of Madison Wisconsin, for their deeply penetrating research report, "Rectal foreign bodies: Case Reports and a Comprehensive Review of the World's Literature." The citations include reports of, among other items: seven light bulbs; a knife sharpener; two flashlights; a wire spring; a snuff box; an oil can with potato stopper; eleven different forms of fruits, vegetables and other foodstuffs; a jeweler's saw; a frozen pig's tail; a tin cup; a beer glass; and one patient's remarkable ensemble collection consisting of spectacles, a suitcase key, a tobacco pouch and a magazine.
a frozen pig's tail???
wonder if herta wrote about any of this... i'll have to find out.
pointy sticks have been averted. my chances are gooder that i will be able to attend. count me in... that's on the Dork '10, not the tv shows.
A couple of interesting links if you're into this kind of thing... if not... move along. There's a Nobel thread down there somewhere.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblo...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/fairytal...
I never knew there was such a thing...
http://www.nanowrimo.org/
If you need help writing that novel here's a link to the Electro-Plasmic Hydrocephalic Genre-Fiction Generator 2000...
http://wondermark.com/554/
and a working model of the Electro-Plasmic Hydrocephalic Genre-Fiction Generator 2000...
http://fictiongen.boxofjunk.ws/
Oct 14, 2009 03:50PM
thanks dan...
dan... you should take something for that cough. i'm undecided. that's next year. i can't understand time that far in advance. as of now i'd say 30%yes/70%no. it will depend on many things the main one being that i'm still alive what with pointy stick attacks and such in the near future. i know that's of no help for planning purposes... so just assume i won't be attending and if i do i'll bring sleeping equipment like closed eyes and prone positions.
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