Brian’s Comments (group member since Mar 02, 2009)

Brian’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

A lot of what? Are those like cheetos? I like cheetos. Is there a film version of this play?

my big book plan is still going on and beckett is giving me both a headache and a joy that i cannot quite explain... i mean this old crippled fart has defecation issues (as most of beckett's characters do) and he just rambles on and on. beckett is doing away with paragraphs and is slowly dropping the full stop. i feel like i've been living with an old bum for a few weeks and he won't shut up but i'm kind of hoping he won't shut up. he's both annoying and funny. i think i'm starting to smell and i need to shit now. question is where.

on another note... heard on wait, wait don't tell me that beckett sometimes gave andre the giant, the wrestling mammoth, a ride to school. that just cracks me up and i'm not sure why.

i'm enjoying spying in on this thread and although i'm not rereading the book this year i feel like maybe i should. damn, but i do like faulkner.

continue... now... please... with the discussions.

faulkner blew me away last year. good stuff... all of it. i'll dig the hole for your hatchet je.

Kris has left the building and along with him went a few posts... here's the link to the short story To Kill a Child. It is short short. It is good good.

I'm in the middle of his book A Burnt Child... A wife dies, a mother dies, the son and father take the death on different terms. It's a slow and beautiful read so far. The tension is building slowly, the spring is getting tight. Something's got to give soon.

Just stuck it on my phone to read in the air. i like gut kicks.

Hello Jimmy and welcome. I second Invisible Cities. Interesting book.

You might also try Magnetic Field by Ron Loewinsohn. Reminded me a bit of Calvino... and to tie the above message together... Loewinsohn and Brautigan worked together.

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/sto...

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/200...

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...

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.