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Post by Fuzznuts on Apr 19, 2006 10:46:06 GMT -5
I totally agree. They don't write 'em like that anymore.
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 19, 2006 11:12:48 GMT -5
Understatement of the century.
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Post by sisyphus on Apr 19, 2006 15:21:28 GMT -5
fuzznuts!!! excellent reads!!! i have not read 'of human bondage' yet, but i love s.m.! Just finished:  Now reading:  |
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Post by Fuzznuts on Apr 19, 2006 16:34:41 GMT -5
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Post by poseidon on Apr 19, 2006 19:28:42 GMT -5
Sounds like serious novels. I'm more fly-by-night read it and forget it...
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Post by Fuzznuts on Apr 19, 2006 20:08:42 GMT -5
You should try Of HUman Bondage. You might like it.
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Post by Kensterberg on Apr 19, 2006 20:18:41 GMT -5
Oh bondage, UP YOURS!
[This message brought to you by Poly Styrene and X-Ray Spex]
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Post by poseidon on Apr 19, 2006 20:39:56 GMT -5
"Tie me up, beat me, whip me, come all over me, tell me ya love me...then get the fuck out." - Unknown.
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Post by phil on Apr 24, 2006 20:20:07 GMT -5
VIVA ITALIA !!  Giuliano Bugiali's Italia (cookbook ...) |
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Post by sisyphus on Apr 24, 2006 23:05:34 GMT -5
i will have to get around to of human bondage...we'll see if it manages to cut ahead in line...
i need a good indian food cookbook.
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Post by Fuzznuts on Apr 25, 2006 6:51:15 GMT -5
Oh bondage, UP YOURS! [This message brought to you by Poly Styrene and X-Ray Spex] Thanks, Ken. I knew I could count on you.  |
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Post by luke on Apr 25, 2006 8:37:42 GMT -5
 I finally got around to rereading The Beautiful and Damned. On the beach, which is where I wish I would have read Tender is the Night. I just tried to write a review, but I'm way too tired and there's way too much in this book for me to write about this fucking tired. But I will say that this is not the book I remember reading in my teens. It is much, much better. Everyone in their 20s should read this book. It won't connect as a teen, and it may not connect once you hit 30. This is a book about being in your 20s, particularly your mid-20s, and I feel blessed to have picked it up again before it was too late. Fitzgerald tackles his usual themes here, but there is more emphasis on failure, failure, failure. Though the characters are conversing in 1914, and the book was written during WWI, the words, thoughts, and ideas are identical to the philistine bullshit we still spout today. Not in the sense that "they were dealing with the same issues, had the same thoughts, the same feelings", but identical in the sense that we still have the EXACT same conversations, word for fucking word. It blows my goddamn mind. The ending's a bit far-fetched, but it's so goddamn gorgeous to see Scott as a young, lost motherfucker just laying down his own Manifest Destiny. Again, it's thematically similar to most of his work, but he has being a 20-something down to an art. Yeah, Tender is the Night is better, and Gatsby is "the classic". But you can read those later. Check this fucker out before you turn 30. |
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Post by Fuzznuts on Apr 25, 2006 8:54:14 GMT -5
Doesn't look like I'm gonna make it...
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Post by dolly on Apr 25, 2006 11:18:36 GMT -5
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Post by dolly on Apr 25, 2006 11:20:46 GMT -5
I made the Eggs Florentine to accompany a roast joint of smoked gammon. A lot of faffing about - but well worth the effort. Also rustled up his creme brulee, or "Burnt Cream" dessert for some dinner guests at last week. To die for...
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