Jonathan’s Comments (group member since Mar 05, 2009)

Jonathan’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

. . .maybe times are tough in the hospitality industry-- i'll call these folks and see if there's any chance i can talk them into to renting us three days mid-week in early august . ..

shit! . . . hmm . . .

cheers, mate!

. . .dude, you're in, you gotta!

. . .weekend days or week days? 2 nights or 3?

. . .nice, patty!

. . . i think we should pull the trigger on this place:


http://www.cyberrentals.com/rental/p1...

. . .first 12 folks who commit sleep at the house, and if we have late deciders, or even last minute deciders, we can probably find rooms in clinton . . .

. . .i'm on a list for cape disappointment, bri . . . i can check back, but i'm not hopeful . . .i've stayed there before, both in the quarters and camping and it's gorgeous . . .problem is, that it's a 3+ hour drive from seattle . . .

. . . there's a cleaning fee and a bunch of taxes, and i've got a sneaking suspicion the rate in august will be higher than 300 a night (i see that there's a charge for over 10) . . . but worse case scenario, we're probably looking at 120 bucks each total for two nights . . . or 180 for three nights . . . and if we're gonna run over the twelve, surely, there will be nearby lodging possibilities in clinton . . . the only thing that scares me, is having to pay half up front on my credit card, as i'm trying to be a responsible boy and pay my balance every month, so i can someday get a loan . . . but let's get a consensus on this place, asap . . .

. . . j-bird, i had to come back to this post today and make sure that i wasn't too drunk to understand it . . . nope, it was you . . .

. . . it may be a little crowded sleeping wise--says it sleeps 12, though . . .

http://www.clintonchamberofcommerce.org/

. . . on the website, it looks as though there are availabilities . . . the nearby town, clinton, is cute and has restaurants . . .not as big as port townsend . . . here's their chamber of commerce . . .

. . .okay, just to give you an idea of the places i'm looking at, check this place out:

http://www.cyberrentals.com/rental/p1...

. . . don't even know if it's available, yet, but it looks pretty cool, right?

. . .nothing before august 26th at flagler . . .back to the drawing board!

HERE HERE, matt! and yes, i'm yelling!...it's twelve bucks to see a movie in NY and LA--with a good chance that the movie will suck. . . books are a bargain at 12 to 30....

personal observation: i've attended 40 odd book clubs for lulu, each with 7-20 people . . .586 women, 3 men . . . 3!. .. women like to get together and talk . . .guys like to get together and "do" stuff . . .

. . .hell yes, it's gettin' hot up in here! . . . i think price indexing in the book industry should be completely restructured . . . i'd pay a hundred bucks for special edition scratch and sniff of my favorite author . . .or rubber bound with a deckled edge . . .

. . . you hit it on the head with curatorial, matt . . .i can respect everybody who is approaching this from a "who cares about the medium or delivery, i just care about the word angle, (insert ALL CAPITALS)" but my reality, and matt's reality, revolve around the health of the book industry . . . and actually, so does the health of our national literature as a whole . . .if we lose our indie bookstores it's a big hit to literature, which will begin to lose even more cultural currency . . . there will be nobody left on the retail level to effectively connect readers and writers . . . lose that second-person advocacy, and writers are left to sort out there own demand completely on their own . . . which is fine if you happen to be a freak of nature like me who enjoys the social circus and publicity end of the business, but bodes horribly for the majority of great writers who are introverts . . . without indie booksellers, these people will never find readers . . . and matt, you make a good point about the evergreen angle . . . the backlist is effectively the bread and butter of commercial publishing, and this is where amazon really draws their market share-- because they stock EVERY title ever printed . . . on a title to title basis, amazon comprises only a small percentage of retail sales for most authors . . . it's that huge collective backlist that earns them their share . . .

. . . i'm 90 pages in, and . . . and . . . and . . . i'm liking it better than anything i've ever read by faulkner!!!! . . . hooray! this is the skipper eating a little crow! . . . the narrative has more momentum than i've grown accustomed to with old bill . . .i'm liking the language a lot--the only stylistic things that still bug me a little are his frequent descriptive repetitions, and the preponderance of words like healworn, etc . . . i usually like these invented faulkner words on their own, but after awhile it becomes kind of an annoying tic that breaks the narrative spell for me . . . small complaint, though . . . true to faulkner, we've got another "big" character shrouded in mystique, and he's got me this time hook, line, and sinker . . . the first chapter with lena was a revelation to me, as she reminded me A LOT of a character i just wrote (young pregnant girl, wandering the countryside) in the revised fundamentals of caregiving . . . so, anyway, there's a brief progress report . . .i'm so glad all you faulkner folks have got me reading light in august . . . i like liking faulkner, i do, i really do . . .