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August 20

Lindsay joined the New Moon, ☼Serena☼'s Fan Club and ><>Life's Like That<>< groups.

August 04

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Where the Sidewalk Ends (Audio CD)
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A Light in the Attic (Hardcover)
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July 15

Lindsay made a comment in the group Goodreads—here we.... topic:

Lindsay wrote: "My favorite book has got to be Prey by Michael Crichton. "

July 09

Lindsay made a comment on Terry's profile:

Lindsay wrote: "Thank you for the invite to compare books. "

July 08

Lindsay read and liked Martine's review of Slaughterhouse-Five:

"I have to admit to being somewhat baffled by the acclaim Slaughterhouse-5 has received over the years. Sure, the story is interesting, and it has a fascinating and mostly successful blend of tragedy and comic relief. And yes, I guess the fract...more I have to admit to being somewhat baffled by the acclaim Slaughterhouse-5 has received over the years. Sure, the story is interesting, and it has a fascinating and mostly successful blend of tragedy and comic relief. And yes, I guess the fractured structure and time-travelling element must have been quite novel and original back in the day. But that doesn't excuse the book's flaws, of which there are rather a lot in my (seemingly unconventional) opinion. Take, for instance, Vonnegut's endless repetition of the phrase 'So it goes.' Wikipedia informs me it crops up 106 times in the book. It felt like 300 times to me. About forty pages into the book, I was so fed up with the words 'So it goes' that I felt like hurling the book across the room, something I have not done since trying to read up on French semiotics back in the nineties. I got used to them eventually, but I never grew to like them. God, no.

I found some other nits to pick, too. Some of them were small and trivial, such as -- wait for it -- the hyphen in the book's title. Seriously, what is that hyphen doing there? There's no need for a hyphen there. Couldn't someone have removed it, like, 437 editions ago? And while I'm at it, couldn't some discerning editor have done something about the monotonous quality of Vonnegut's prose -- about the interminable repetition of short subject-verb-object sentences? Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying all authors should use Henry James- or Claire Messud-length sentences. I'm actually rather fond of minimalism, both in visual art and in writing. But Vonnegut's prose is so sparse and simplistic it's monotonous rather than minimalist, to the point where I frequently found myself wishing for a few longer sentences every now and then, or for an actual in-depth description of something. I hardly ever got them. As a result, there were times when I felt like I was reading a bare-bones outline of a story rather than the story itself. True, it was an interesting outline, but still, I think the story could have been told in more effective way. A less annoying way, too.

As for the plot, I liked it. I liked the little vignettes Vonnegut came up with and the colourful characters he created (the British officers being my particular favourites). I liked the fact that you're never quite sure whether Billy is suffering from dementia, brain damage or some kind of delayed post-traumatic stress disorder or whether there is some actual time-travelling going on. I even liked the jarring switches in perspective, although I think they could have been handled slightly more subtly. And I liked the book's anti-war message, although it seemed to be curiously weak and defeatist. In short, I liked the book, but it took some doing. I hope I'll be less annoyed by the two other Vonnegut books I have sitting on my shelves, Breakfast of Champions and Cat's Cradle.
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June 29

Lindsay made a comment in the group Books I Loathed—The Scarlet Letter- killing literacy since 1850 topic:

Lindsay wrote: "I agree. I liked the novel. This was required reading in school, but the story was interesting. Unfo...more "

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"Dance like no one is watching.
Sing like no one is listening.
Love like you've never been hurt
and live like it's heaven on Earth."
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People write books for many reasons, so why did you write yours?

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This is a public forum for people to kvetch (cleanly, please) about books they absolutely hated, and for others to respond. Though nonfiction is certa...more

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from Camille

11 days ago, 10:44AM

Hi Lindsay! Thanks for the request.

Peace and Blessings

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from Miss. Twilight

20 days ago, 08:41AM

thanks for adding me as your friend. i look forward to chating with you soon.

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from Jeremy

01/23/2008 07:18PM

I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me today. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.

Argh...this is terrible...

Again, I'm very sorry.

-Jeremy

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from Jeremy

12/31/2007 06:32PM

Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

-Jeremy :)

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from Daniel

10/12/2007 02:16PM

Why worry about global warming, Lindsay when, as you saw yourself, experts like Michael Chrichton write books about it and are positively sure there is nothing to it whatsoever.

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