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

Jonathan’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

. . . dan texted me to say he picked up a copy in philly, and he got the last one! which means at least four other people in philly bought a copy . . .

. . .patrick the librarian sent me this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/us/...

. . . whoohooo, this ought to be a national holiday! two pillars of the fictionphile community celebrating b-days on the same day!

oops, i spelled your name with a ch . . .

. . .wow, great post, chris . . . growth of the soil is my favorite hamsun, and one of my favorite novels ever . . .

. . . i recently saw a book devoted to hilariously politically uncorrect book covers . . . i gotta; find it on amazon, so you can see some of them . . . so far, no luck . . .

. . . i am at fort flaggler right this moment (yes, the store has wifi) and it is absolutely beautiful as always . . . only 31 more days til the dork!!!!

my pleasure . . . i took the opportunity to revisit the site!

. . . mo, for me, dickens language rarely operates in a vacuum . . . it nearly always serves the story, not the author . . . i rarely get the impression that sir chuck is trying to wow me with his elaborate language . . . it seems to me that the majority of his most complex sentences, are convoluted intentionally for comic effect--to defer the readers expectation as long as possible before delivering the punch line . . . waugh and wodehouse both seemed to model their comic language after dickens . . . also, there's the context to consider dickens language probably wouldn't agree with me if it were written in 2008 . . .

here you go, matt:

http://www.literature-map.com/

. . . great point, swanny, i'm glad you brought up this kind of gamesmanship . . . the thing with dickens is that it seems more like a storytelling sensibility than a linguistic one-- it calls attention to the "storyteller" in the oral tradition, but not the "writer", if that makes sense . . .

this very short article got me to thinking:

http://bigtweet.com/c/b/twitter/FSG_B...

. . . i must confess that this kind of florid prose style (see example in article) bugs me . . . it feels overwrought to me, and serves to call attention to the writer, and away from the story . . . anyway, though i'd open this up for discussion . . .

. . . i'll bring a a few extra copies marge, so no worries, if yours don't arrive on time . . .

. . .dude, i love the title "fuck yes!" . . .it's even better than "fuck yeah!" . . . and i'm dying to know what the "f" stands for between wing and fing!

. . . feel free to spread a little fictionphile love for jim on the blog comments at three guys, too . ..

plenty of beds, patrick . . .no worries at all on that count! . . .plenty of beer, too!

. . . well, jimbo's new book is officially non-fiction, but i wanted to alert everybody to a sneak peak of "adland; searching for the meaning of life on a branded planet," here:

http://threeguysonebook.blogspot.com/...

. . . the issue with the online stuff isn't platform, rather it has something to do with the university having to run all sales or some such . . .

. . . oh yeah, and hey everybody, i went to my mailbox yesterday, and guess whose smiling mug greeted me on the cover of my beloved library news? that's, right, partick!

. . . thanks for posting this, patrick . . .dave eggers is a badass dude . . .