tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11399622.post111465260979419288..comments2023-10-23T10:37:45.163-07:00Comments on Dr. Write: Reading MemeDr Writehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16408687271313205905noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11399622.post-1115083218899596422005-05-02T18:20:00.000-07:002005-05-02T18:20:00.000-07:00Dr. Write, you are thankfully keeping me from doin...Dr. Write, you are thankfully keeping me from doing work! Yippee!<BR/><BR/>Fahrenheit 451: I'm paralyzed on this one. Perhaps it would be Winning Casino Blackjack that I see on my shelf.<BR/><BR/>Crush: Too many to count. James Frey in A Million Little Pieces (I know, not really fictional but not really the author either), I admit it John Grady Cole (All the Pretty Horses), Fred from A Fan's Notes. This should tell you something about my taste in men.<BR/><BR/>The last book you bought: Truth & Beauty, Ann Patchett and Anne Sexton A Portrait in Letters. <BR/><BR/>Currently reading: Darkness Visible, William Styron and new de Kooning biography.<BR/><BR/>Five Books: Ulysses (because I've never read it and I'd finally have enough time to try to figure it out), the Bible (for sheer narrative quantity), In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien, Unless by Carol Shields, The Sun Also Rises.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11399622.post-1114796443268848882005-04-29T10:40:00.000-07:002005-04-29T10:40:00.000-07:00Hey, susansinclair, I just read your responses, an...Hey, susansinclair, I just read your responses, and saw The Phantom Tollbooth, and remembered that I totally censored myself from putting Harriet the Spy in plenty of places on mine. I used to read this book at least once a summer.Lisa B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10646181766775405935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11399622.post-1114736180116983602005-04-28T17:56:00.000-07:002005-04-28T17:56:00.000-07:00No, I almost said the bible, too, because there's ...No, I almost said the bible, too, because there's so many interesting ideas. I mean, it's basically an anthology, right? Just one put together over a really really long time...susansinclairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12902873240114986043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11399622.post-1114665648716665902005-04-27T22:20:00.000-07:002005-04-27T22:20:00.000-07:00Fahrenheit 451: Ulysses. It would be so great to...Fahrenheit 451: Ulysses. It would be so great to have all those voices.<BR/><BR/>Crush: Jack Foley in Elmore Leonard's Out of Sight. V. sexy scenes in this book--perfectly written, not one precious note. And I truly did read this way before the movie. <BR/><BR/>Last book you bought is? 2--Kenneth Koch's New Addresses and The Complete Poems of Hart Crane.<BR/><BR/>Currently reading: see above; also Teletheory by Greg Ulmer.<BR/><BR/>Five Books: I am so prepared to answer this question! <BR/><BR/>1. Whitman, Song of Myself. Because it's really the big poem for me.<BR/>2. Some gigantic Dickens novel that I've already read--Our Mutual Friend? Little Dorrit? Big. Plentiful. Funny and sad. Laugh and cry.<BR/>3. Underworld, de Lillo. Because it's just that great. <BR/>4. In the Skin of a Lion, Ondaatje. Strange and lyrical and sexy and violent.<BR/>5. I think if I say the Bible, I will seem freakish and scary in the new Dominion-oriented landscape. So I'll say . . . hmm, I'm not as prepared as I thought! I'm saying The Woman Warrior, because Kingston's style seems endlessly gorgeous and surprising in that book.<BR/><BR/>Three people you hope will answer this meme after you:<BR/><BR/>Middle-brow, of course, because he will.<BR/>Francesca Unwound, because she's my best friend forever, and it's good to keep up with your best friend.<BR/>Signifying Nothing, aka Clint, who has the coolest site ever.Lisa B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10646181766775405935noreply@blogger.com