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

Dan’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

Well then, it looks like I should hurry and finish up with Neil's book.

I added to the spreadsheet this morning. Hopefully this helps Mo feel secure in her Coke Zeros supply.

I will when I can look a it from a computer rather than phone!

I'll be driving in so I can bring coke zero, tonic and beer with me pretty easily

I know I am the fiend responsible for your coke zero shortage.

I had a goal to see Yosemite this summer, then I switched jobs and gave up on the goal. Now however it looks possible again, and with Dorks. I can't wait!

gah!

Woohoo, I am pretty excited too.

Here is the address again for those who would otherwise find themselves digging through this thread as I just did:

8110 W. Murray Creek Road
Mountain Ranch, CA 95246

Probably around 8pm on the 21st. We are very likely going to drive up.

Lucky me, I will make a payment to the account tonight.

Update: payment sent.

Hey Smarty! Are you set up on paypal, If so what email address should I use to send you money?

I'm down too!

Tell us about your dream here Lara.

If enfakening is Baz's stylistic affectation he hit it out of the park. Though a style, perhaps even Baz's, can be achieved without the cartoonish animation. I guess it is a larger problem I have with the film industry, the over reliance on computer animation.

The blowing curtain scene near the beginning was done so much better in the 1974 version. It was better simply because it was real.

Kerry, I too am a fan of Mulligan but didn't think she pulled off Daisy very well.

Well, I saw it and didn't hate it entirely. Opening with Jay-Z rapping was a bit overwhelming and jarring given the setting of the book but the music eventually settled down.

I had two major problems. First, what was with the over-reliance on computer animation in a movie that should have required so very little? It was maddening at first and I considered walking out in the first 5 mins. Everything looked fake. The houses, the water, the fog, the green light. How many of the things I mentioned would have been difficult to film?

Secondly, why was the movie framed around Nick's visit(s) to the shrink? How did that help the story? Why couldn't the actual story have stood on its own? Terrible.

As far as acting goes everyone gets a C or below, except for Jordan Baker played by Elizabeth Debicki, she was excellent.

All that being said, I did enjoy the core of the film, and I am glad I didn't see it in 3D. There's no way I'd have been able to handle that gimmick on top of it all.

While I am definitely not one to standup for our modern American culture I am willing to bet that the reading/rereading of any classic (and maybe contemporary) novel increases as the media become populated with advertisements and reviews of a new adaptation.

Perhaps the uptick more pronounced in the United States, or perhaps the United States is just an easy target to shit on (as I often find it to be).

If you've not loved in a high bouncing manner you've not truly loved.


or something...

I am currently reading The Beautiful and Damned and I hope to see the film in the next couple of days. I don't expect it to be great, but I feel that way about most things these days.

I also ran across this set of correspondance between our old sport and his editor regarding a draft of The Great Gatsby:

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/07/...

Girlish covers are obviously a marketing tactic and from what I understand authors don't have a lot of say when it comes to their book covers (correct me if I am wrong about this). The problem with this is that it categorizes really good writers as chick-lit authors and remove them from the big literary fiction buzz that occasionally arises.

It's probably a good example of books being judged by their cover. I can't imagine Where'd You Go, Bernadette generating as much buzz if it had a cover more like A Prescription for Love.

someone's itching for a fight! en garde?