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

Patrick’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

I don't know...I would have bought Mcsweeney's if it came with tranfer tattoos. Do they have one with GIJOE Snakeye? The old school type with the machine gun and the broadsword?

Yeah, his first book, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genuis, I think it was a bit misshapened with the bloated end dealing with his mother dying of cancer and the thinnest end with the rest of his life.

But I still think it took a lot of courage to be honest in your writing, the part where he attempted to applied to the Real World and he confessed that he thought he could get in that show as a tragic kid who lost his mom at a young age was very real and honest which made his first book more interesting.

Is it too late to reserve one of the beds at the Flaggler? Do I need to sneak in the kitchen and camp out on the kitchen table?

At least it is not 'Cub Scouts in Bondage' otherwise we would have to call the child abuse clearance on Michael Bell.

But really love the Hole in Juan. That to me is sheer pun brillance.

Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? is one of the most menacing short story I ever read.

Happy birthday.

At least it's not as if the author clues us in on the character's background and race by writing the character's a fan of jazz, and African American studies like James Patterson did in his Alex Cross novels. Mcperson's book, is the hardcover novel I would recommend be used to beat Mr. Patterson to a pulp with.

Maybe with zombies, hmmm...

We ought to move this to appropriation file and maybe read John Clinch's Finn to discuss this and J.D. Salinger's situation.

I recently discovered the art of rewriting and found that the hardest thing I have ever done in my life.

Is that the one about the girl who got all the other kids in trouble and became an outcast? That's a good choice for a young adult novel.

I alway have been an admirer of 'Shane' a fine two sided novel that covered the western theme in slightly under two hundred pages. Even the bad guys, gosh they need the work!

If they are over 18 and do that to me slow enough, I might like it. : P

Awright, I'm sold. Will check out Fire Ants. And probably join Library Thing while I am at it.

Careful that Jon do not find out you have been two timing the fiction files with Miss Library Thang as Michael would have said! :)

Talk about a ghost writer.

Dear young ladies:

Patrick Kilgallon is my pen name. Please order my book and do a review on it. If you are over eighteen send me pictures of you reading my book so I can see if you are good looking enough for me to hit on. The first 500 girls to order will get to take turns doing duets with me.

Peace,

Edward Cullen and Taylor.



Think they will buy it?

Do you think I can win these girls over if I am that vampire actor guy Taylor?

Dear young ladies:

Patrick Kilgallon is my pen name. Please order my book and do a review on it. If you are over eighteen send me pictures of you reading my book so I can see if you are good looking enough for me to hit on. The first 500 girls to order will get to take turns doing duets with me.

Peace,

Taylor

Yeah, thanks for that Shel.

I also read the story and it is very brutal, probably more brutal than what I could come up with. I would wish that both Stella and Rosa and Magda would try to keep each other alive but if that happens, they would die together to fufill my romantic vision of survival or dying with dignity.

It is hard to judge Rosa because I had never want for food, which is obvious from my recent picture in my profile. It is sad that a sister would have stolen Magda's security shawl for herself but she must have been bitter with the lack of contact from her mother and have the usual rivality.

It is very horrifying how sometimes the survival mechanism would even interfere with the concept of love and faithfullness to even the mother's children, making poor Rosa into a cold and a desperate frightful person.

It makes me think of Jack London's To Build a Fire. I remember the teacher at my college asking that if he was in the same situation, he would have held the dog to warm himself rather than try and kill the dog for its fur. I wondered what would happen if Stella was allowed to hold both the shawl and the baby and use the shawl to wrap around her and the baby. Would it have turned differently?

I guess that is what Michael Cunningham meant when he said if you are a writer, you are also a murderer.

Dan wrote: "So there is this Goodreads group called "Hard Core Chicks"

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1...

I was surprised to find something entirely different when conducting a googl..."

Yeah, I checked out that thread. I hope they don't end up running N.O.W. as adults. Otherwise, they won't be able to get anything done. The whole organization would be run badly enough that meetings after meetings would be canceled because they would be too busy staying homes, cleaning the toilets at the same time their boyfriends or husbands are boinking them in the asses. : P