Patrick’s Comments (group member since Mar 09, 2009)

Patrick’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

I alway feel distrustful of respecting your elders because some of them are just completely insane. ( One of my older relatives used to leave suicide notes for her children daily and another one crashed into her friend's car in an empty parking lot after my dad dropped both of them off after a party. Also I have witnessed teachers acting like four year olds and their students in kindergarden acting like adults.)

I think the elders need to earn respect throughout life and it will take time for them to build a good relationship with the youngsters if they are honest about their flaws and experiences. (And does not have to apply to city hall for one of those sex offender signs)

I remember being on both sides: criticizing others' materials and being criticized. When I tried working as a Features editor, it was a miserable experience to be delicate and still get flamed for it from the writers who think their precious purple prose just can't simply be changed. I would rather be a writer getting critiqued and I usually listen to comments like "I do not understand what's going on in that scene" or "Why do you write it that way?" rather than "This writing sucks and blows at the same time like a reversible vaccumm."

I need to know which airport is close to whatever your house or the Dorkplooza? I plan to get plane tickets this week before they become expensive.

I read his The Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man....I plan on reading Finnegan's Wake but think his language is really over my head along with Ulysses.

One thing I really liked about the PoAaaYM is that scary trick Joyce played on the readers, scaring the readers NOT with a description of Hell, something he left to Dante I suspect, but how close a person or a sinner can come to avoiding it in comparing how a single tear of regret at the right time in life will save all rather than oceans after oceans of tears that filled every room in Hell. If the church uses his passages as a sermon, I bet you there will be plenty of converts.

I also read The Dead in his The Dubliners book, and I think his plain and homely language made it beautiful to read, and I don't mean homely as in dull or ugly, but like warm and ordinary, like a childhood spent in a family house during Thanksgiving. And the ending with the snow falling on the dead and the living alike really was one of the best ending I ever read.

I can imagine this scene as several people dressing like stuff left in the patients' bodies after surgery parading around the stage while Ron sings about the notorious sponge! Or Nicole singing "Through Violet Eyes of Love" or Travis advising the audience in song to "Place it for your stoooool." to West Side Story, "Play it cool."

I felt The Futurist was very well written, clean and crisp, and not a wasted word. The characters made me think of Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of Vanities and Man in Full. My favorite scene is the "beautiful people" posing at a night club in lower class workers' clothes like gas station attendants, hotel maids, gardeners, factory workers... to show that they are too hot looking to let these simple garbs bring down their looks.

I wouldn't mind being a moderator, but I worry about getting drunk with power and creating double standards and being a hypocrite. Beside the temptation to pimp out my book as a moderator and handing down bans from goodreads for others, judge-jury-executioner style, for doing the same is too great for me to be responsible about it.

I'm Patrick Kilgallon and am one of the few Deaf readers out there.

I like horrorbooks, ninjas and Kung Fu guys and movies about 'em, pizzas, heartily supporting female strippers working their ways through medical schools or law schools, and Breyer's fudge royal ice cream.

I also found out last year that bourbon and Coke is pronounced as "brrr-bon" and Coke, not "bor-bon" and Coke, and bartenders do NOT think it is cute when I make a shivering motion while ordering brr-bon and Coke.

And I like Bonita's introduction better than mine and is a member of the old f.f.

This is way better, more inviting and warmer rather than the clunky graphics on myspace.