Search results

ooooooh, bless you novella. i really really didn't like this book (when i read it for book club ;) ) and had a hard time articulating it. i ended up sounding like someone in grade 8 complaining about a girl i don't like in school ("ew, she's just so annoying, and did you see her hair?"). i...

i may be biased (i'm reading this book right now ;) ) but "the princess bride" is a fairly easy read, has lots going on to keep the plot moving, and is both hilarious and touching.

prince is in toronto. if you have 6 million dollars to spend on a house, you can buy one next door to him. it's only six million dollars canadian, so it's not much. ;)

well, profile info is optional, non? i only put what i think is relevant, useful, etc. i don't really have a favourite genre, so making one up would be kind of silly. ;)

i'm lacking other information? :confused:

i've never read him myself, but it sounds like thoreau. here's a link you may find useful (towards the end of the nonfiction list): http://my.net-link.net/~vaneselk/muskrat/books.htm

toronto. and thanks for the reminder: if that's not in my profile, it should be. ;)

ack! once again, i am thwarted by geeks. now where did i put my l33t decoder ring...

most over-rated: memoirs of a geisha the polished hoe the five people you meet in heaven and i haven't read it yet, but i'm betting i'll put "the da vinci code" on that list when the time comes. have i mentioned these are all books from my book club? ;)

thanks for the avatar compliment, by the way. i *heart* my city. ;)

i was going to butt in and defend my total and utter lack of capitalization... but this made my brain hurt!! :eek:

sorry! this old thread resurrection is probably my fault. i joined in august and hadn't been on much. i just started posting/lurking/reading old threads again in the last couple weeks. i also just uploaded an avatar at the same time, so that probably contributed. my bad. :o

"oryx and crake" has really stuck with me. i read it just before all the kidnappings in iraq (no wmd's, grumble grumble), and the interent-wide video of hostages/threats/beheadings seems lifted right from the novel. there are several other things from the book that, for me, also reasonate really...

i noticed yesterday that i put "written on the body" on my books-to-keep-and-read-over-and-over shelf. i guess that means i have to check out her next one. :rolleyes: thanks for the heads up.

hm. thanks for answering, even if it's only a vague recollection. i'm definitely going to read more of her stuff eventually. however, like many book-geeks, i have shelves of books i'm intending to read. :rolleyes:

what axe-grinding? for winterson specifically?

actually, in "written on the body" her axe-grinding paid off, imho. slight spoiler: if you want to read the book then don't read this. however, it's a stylistic point (not plot) and it's given away in every single essay/review on this novel. written on the body never reveals the narrator's...

this is the only time in my life i haven't had a preference. who knew? ;) actually, only a slight preference: in the winter, if you try to read while walking or waiting for the bus, your fingers freeze a little. :rolleyes:

i read written on the body for my book club and was pleasantly surprised. the part in the middle about body parts (it's not what it sounds, it's like a poetic meditation of her lover's body, with medical terminology) caught me a little off guard though-- i think i would have really enjoyed tham...

i'm so glad this thread is fairly current-- i just did a mad spree of palahniuk reading and i can't get his books out of my head. what i love the most is how the world in his books are dirty--there's grit and dust and fingernail clipping and threads coming out of your buttons. he doesn't...