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

Patrick’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

My own library is a cramped basement packed with books after books. I think I have about over a thousand books. Occasionally you would see me scurry about like a mouse among them.

I really like the earnestness of each story. Especially when the moose is skydiving with the man who saves him, and the moose says, 'I hope we can be friends.'

I remember reading The Number of the Beast. I had a hard time understanding what the hell it was supposed to be about. Far as I remember, it was about two free thinking couples flying on a space ship in a void.

I remember Tom Wolfe getting John Irving angry, along with two other writers, Norman Mailer, and John Updike with his pet names for them, My Three Stooges. I think the three writers were angry at Wolfe because Wolfe wrote about vanity in Bonfires of Vainities, and I believe machismo in Man In Full, themes thought by the other heavy hitters writers as superficial. But I am a rabid fan of Tom Wolfe's artistic portraits of douchebagism.

I don't care about the page length as long as the writer can sustain my attention.

Talk to Shel. She has a supply coming with her on the plane. I did not know that kale has medicinal properties...

I will be at the Minneapolis St. Paul airport around 11:30 p.m. car rental if anyone wanna ride on Sunday to the Dorka.

Yes, the main character is a ego manic, but I liked the irony of him thinking he could change the world and invertedly doing so by changing the lives of the people around him.

How about Confederacy of the Dunces?

Can your friends come over Wednesday night? I would hate to leave without a chance to hang out with musicians since I leave on Thursday. I can clap along but badly though...:)

Umm...do you need two reindeer battery powered noses for those teachers for these two areas? Let me know what I can do to support you on that.

I thought it was the humor of dead babies jokes kind with dead babies nailed to doorways of attacked villages and towns. It was really hardcore Western with maggots and worms squirming in tattoed and bare arms of infected soldiers.

Sure! :)

Patty wrote: "hey Patrick, I thought you didn't know ASL? Am I to understand that you have started learning it?

I think the words I'd like ASL equivelants for by the time of the dork are:

book
dork
beer..."

Yeah, I know A.S.L. from my years at Gallaudet. Will check them out at A.S.L. social tmw.

Hey I am curious if any one of you are interested in learning American Sign Language? I was thinking of asking you to goodreads message me ten words that you want to know A.S.L. for and I'll ask around some deafs for what's the sign for that word and what's the sign for that word and I'll come over and teach you them? I am trying to promote American Sign Language to increase more social chances for myself. :) No pressure though. I tend to be a patient guy!

I would like to 'heart tea' nominate anything said in 1952 to 1982 by Ayn Rand.

http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/qm...

I like this reaction. Dripping with sarcasm.

I scored 7 out of 10, but who cares? I still think Joyce Carol Oates can write circles around V.S. Naipaul any day...

Is there room for me there? I am really thinking of going this year...

Morris Bird the III in 'Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread' is absolutely wonderful in his tenacity to do the right thing and help that blind housewife and the African American gentleman during the worst explosion diaster in the Midwest. I wish I could be humble and brave like that kid!

All for it. However, if you need someone to enforce the code, you will have to go to Dan instead of me since I fold like a wet paper bag when someone buying my book steps out of the line.