tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10113687.post7885222035694009394..comments2023-11-30T02:30:42.825-08:00Comments on E a r t h G o a t: Book recommendation: The Possibility of an IslandGrendelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06664099783685963708noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10113687.post-36012982586249766882007-04-21T13:27:00.000-07:002007-04-21T13:27:00.000-07:00A scifi class, TLB? Cool. I'd love to hear what e...A scifi class, TLB? Cool. I'd love to hear what else is on your readings list.TJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13088461995698326658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10113687.post-21457005244087758772007-04-20T16:24:00.000-07:002007-04-20T16:24:00.000-07:00Not many women are Houellebecq (dammit lets just w...Not many women are Houellebecq (dammit lets just write it as it sounds - Wellbeck) girls. Once I got past 'nasty' and 'sensationalist' I got to dull. Maybe its the translation but ...ZeldaZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01900297568752967364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10113687.post-12579263785433426192007-04-19T18:51:00.000-07:002007-04-19T18:51:00.000-07:00OK, I went out and bought it. I'm going to be tea...OK, I went out and bought it. I'm going to be teaching a scifi class in the fall and think it might be fun.TLBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00528402228927046821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10113687.post-86683692615685150202007-04-18T15:44:00.000-07:002007-04-18T15:44:00.000-07:00LOL at The Plunge. I read The Elementary Particles...LOL at The Plunge. <BR/><BR/>I read The Elementary Particles what feels like a thousand years ago and remember some provocative stuff in that, too. Not just the sex, though there was a lot of that, but the indictment of the '60's sexual and political revolution seemed like a big tweak for the time.<BR/><BR/>Houellebecq is probably unfairly tarred as right-wing because of these explorations, and maybe fairly for some things he's said in the media. All the same, I like your word--"precocious"--better as a descriptor for what he seems to be up to.<BR/><BR/>Or maybe I just like the idea of eating by sitting in some sunlight.TJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13088461995698326658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10113687.post-23246299573869515042007-04-17T00:36:00.000-07:002007-04-17T00:36:00.000-07:00I ain't no Houellebecq girl.(had to)I ain't no Houellebecq girl.<BR/><BR/>(had to)the plungehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13380479707119765371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10113687.post-24780151617867016412007-04-16T10:50:00.000-07:002007-04-16T10:50:00.000-07:00I do want to recommend one book in particular: Col...I do want to recommend one book in particular: Cold Skin, by Alfred Sanchez Pinol. It's really best to know nothing about it, but I will say that it struck a chord with my love of Poe, though the prose is more economical than his even as it evokes it. It's more like a very deftly modernized version of that sort of horror. It's just awesome. I also look forward to a screen adaptation-- there are no plans for one, as far as I know, but it's perfect for it. I'm not one to normally think of books as films-to-be, nor am I inclined to cast them, but I think it's a testimony to the cinematic quality of this book that I'm here doing both: I vote for Cuaron to direct, Claire Fisher's art professor from 6 feet under to star (whatever his name is), and Schwarzenegger to return to the screen as the misanthropic and hairy Austrian, Gruner. I just wanted to plant those images in your heads before you read it. Evil, I know.cfphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13229011285921460494noreply@blogger.com