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

Dan’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

I think i've been on the receiving end of that nod. you've let your secret out!

I guess I'd say that most recently I am Not Sidney Poitier, Lonesome Dove, and the soon to be released The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving all fit that bill.

Give yourself a 30mins to an hour with any of these books and you'll be hooked.

Patty you are so diplomatic! I think I may adapt this manner of dealing with the new greatest book syndrome. Usually I am pretty blunt (or a jerk depending on your viewpoint) when dealing with this type of situation.

I bought my ticket today. See you guys in July!

What book(s) have you read that you literally couldn't put down?

It doesn't have to be the best book you've read just the one that kept you reading. I think it would be nice to have a list of the most gripping reads by fellow FFs especially if/when you feel bogged down with your reading.

Ready. Set. Go!

This is awesome. It makes me so happy seeing people read in public.

A Prescription for Love. I think JWJ has the group copy right now.

No idea!

Aww man, I was hoping for a good old fashioned FF Include flagellation.

Hey, sorry for the delayed response. I am approaching the mid-200s of the book and have also been reading out of Elegant Complexity and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest as I go.

Good news: cockroaches do not appear again (at least through page 230 (if at all)).

Himself as professional conversationalist was indeed brilliant and there are plenty of descriptions and scene throughout the book that make it so much fun to read.

I finally sent you money Patty!

Hey, so what kind of progress have you made Brock? Have you finished it yet? I just started re-reading it the other day have thrillingly cruised through the first 60 pages.

Check out this site, pretty cool. It probably won't help in understanding the book, but it sure is fun.

http://pooryorickentertainment.tumblr...

Thanks for the link Jimmy, I liked the various perspectives given. In the article Hadley sort of touches on the novel's richness, form, size etc saying it's not a flaw. And Hadley's absolutely right.

It's a feature. I'm guessing that books, historically, are meant to be reread. The prohibitive cost of books as the novel evolved leant itself as a form of entertainment meant to be re-enjoyed and re-explored.

It wasn't so easy to move on to another book, let alone to another form of entertainment, in one's home prior to the late 1800s-ish. I think that is why we often find novels, especially classics, so full and enriching.

That being said I don't reread nearly as much as I would like but perhaps I'll change that. I also find that the more I reread a book the harder time I have of pinning down what I like about a book. I've read Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises numerous times and love them. I just don't know why exactly.

I just started rereading Infinite Jest and I am finding it so much more wonderful than I remembered.

Hey Patrick, can you post the link to that podcast for us?

I am not sure that I am going to be able to help in the grasping of anything because I was pretty blown away by the ending.

It resolved so quickly and in so few words that it was stunning.

(view spoiler)[So are we to believe that the first two stories/crimes investigated appear in chronological order? If so, does it matter?

At the very end Warren says that Ogden's face wasn't the face he knew. Does he mean this literally or figuratively, it seems like it could go either way.

And all the questions in Ogden's last rant about things not making sense basically call into question every assumption we've had about the character.

Were there hints throughout the first two-thirds of the book or is Everett just messing with us, sending us on a chase back through the the story? The cover of the book depicting a bullet hold and shattered glass seems to saw a lot about the story. Perhaps Everett's aim was to give us a great story and then shatter everything and leave us no explanation or clues.

As you can see I'm not adding anything to put this story back together again. So I'll stop here. (hide spoiler)]

So I downed Sidney Poitier and loved it. Then I read Assumption and loved it, but it is definitely a head scratcher.

Is this a safe place to post spoilers (view spoiler)[well, is it? (hide spoiler)]

There's a lot to discuss here.

I like how this thread has become a Franzen bashing thread. That being said, someone convinced douchebag and world class grump to sign his Kindle.

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/...

Man I am too slow! I guess I've been too busy this past week.

I have no idea Elizabeth's cover.

I've not seen that cover for Jitterbug Perfume before. That books talked about beets a lot right? Or is that another of his books?

I knew AK the second I saw that purple. I have no idea about Mo's fish cover though.

I don't mind at all and I think I know what the new one is. But I'm not saying at least not till I can post an image.