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i have, though it's not like i have anything to say about it, yet. aside from the fact that it occasionally cracks me up. |
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i'm buying my copy after work tonight and plan to sit in the garden and read until dark. i just couldn't get back to the bookstore this past weekend. |
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Alex cracks me up to no end. I especially take delight when he uses one word and a few pages later I realize that he meant a totally different word. the prose in the Alex chapters is a great read and really builds up that character. |
No, that's a lie, but I wouldn't put it past her. Actually, with all the books and magazines I've got laying around screaming "read me", I think I'll take a pass on this round. You guys have fun though. Cheers. |
Now, do I stay here at the library and finish my paper anyway, like a good girl OR do I go home and watch bad day time tee-vee and read Everything is Illuminated. Anyway, one of the things I like about this book is that it engages in that kind of language-play so typical in pretentious post-modern literature without annoying the crap out of me. p.s. Sammy Davis Junior, Junior |
I will do a proper hunt this weekend though |
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Any opinions about that? |
Hrmph. Heather, I work at a bookstore, and it is great. I live in a land far away and filled with illicit industries, known as Mendocino County. The bookstore is in the town of Mendocino proper, but no one who works in Mendo can afford to live there, so I live in good old Fort Bragg, where dogshit on the pavement makes the front page. Fuck, my toe hurts. |
what did you do? |
When I went to get Everything is Illumintated, I also picked up Choke by Chuck Palahniuk. I'm really eager to get to that one. |
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I just read it. Did I already mention that? Vicondin, sorry. But it's still good. I just finished Oryx and Crake, which was pretty good. Not as good as some things she's written. But ok. |
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I really like the interaction between Alex, his gradnfather and the "hero" and am trying to figure out if there are parallels between that and the relationship of Yankel to the rest of the shtetl in the other story arc. |
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Hot damn, that was a great first pick. The rest of you better start posting, i want to talk about it but don't want to spoil it. It's one of those books that you end up thinking about at times when you aren't reading it. Trying to figure out meanings and wondering if the meanings you are pondering reallyexist in teh book. And feeling like you get it but maybe you didn't sso you need to think about it some more. It left me with the same feeling as I had after seeing the movie "Spider". |
My book just arrived in the mail yesterday. Has anyone else noticed that Amazon is getting really slow in their deliveries lately? |
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i'm almost there. give me a couple more days. |
amazon, flowers.com, drugstore.com, babiesrus.com, pealriver.com places ive ordered from in the last 4 months that have fucked up our order or taken at least two weeks to get to us. Its no better than mail order |
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I think we should extend the finish date of the book since Agatha hasn't gotten hers yet. I'm looking forward to discussing it. |
Other than that, I've had the usual kind of service (i.e., satisfactory) from online sellers. I *love* the fact that you can buy used books and CDs from Amazon so easily -- I save so much that way. I suddenly became obsessed with Chris Cornell's voice over the weekend, so I just ordered 3 Soundgarden, 1 solo project, and that Audioslave CD used from Amazon -- the bill came to under $35 with shipping! |
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That was May 19, and he still hasn't recieved it. The process of tracking, cancelling, and replacing a money order is hideous and complex. And it's going to take at least 2 weeks for the package to get here from Russia once they finally do get the money order. Bah! |
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the book fulfills so many obsessions of mine but i never finished the last pages and i'm a bit confused about some things it is also annoying at times but then i forgive it and go put things in boxes. |
BUT... i can not read this book... i can understand why it has received the reviews and accolades that it has, but, Shit... i can't get past the broken english.... So, no, i wont be talking about this book... sorry... |
I also liked the house full of boxes. Did I mention already how I also liked the gradual transition from light-hearted and quirky to heart-wrenching and tragic in both story arcs? I think he pulled that off amazingly well. I have my suggestion for a book in mind. |
I want to talk about it when I find it. I actually enjoyed it quite a bit, and I'm totally with you about the boxes, Heather. It made me cry, that part. Also, the part about the woman talking to her husband through the walls while he slowly died and went insane. So tragically beautiful. |
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not that we had any doubts. you belong there. |
I don't know what to say about this book, I think I mentioned above that I read it and didn't like it, and I stick to it. Oh well. |
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I'm so lame...I need to skim the book before I talk about it because I forget a lot. My feelings about the book overall are mixed. |
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By the way, I found my Everything is Illuminated book, right after I started reading Pattern Recognition. I will finish it this weekend. It was under my bed, sort of. By the way, again, my friend is housesitting for a lesbian couple that we know, and I noticed that their bed, made up in pastel painty striped sheets, had leather restraint cuffs on the legs of the bed, as well as a strange vibrator with a wall control hooked up next to the bed. The reason that I am telling you all this story is that, next to the leather restraints and vibrator control panel, there are these two pairs of bedraggled oversized fuzzy slippers. I wish you could all have been there with me to see it. |
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Jess wants to get a Master's in Library Science, but was under the impression that she couldn't do it in Portland -- which is where we'd like to live. Congradulations, by the way. And enough of us have read Pattern Recognition that we should set up a discussion of that one too. |
Was the vibrator itself hooked up to the wall (i'm picturing black rubber cock jutting out of the middle of a wall...like the strangest coathook ever), or just a control box for it? Did it have a wire going from the control panel to the end of the thing, or was it all magical and wireless? Why would you want the controls mounted on a wall? |
Website: http://slim.emporia.edu/ As for the vibrator, I must confess that I assumed it was a vibrator without actually checking for sure. There was a sex-toy like panel with a button and a switchlike thing mounted on the wall, and a wire extending off of it into the bed. It warn't no electric blanket, that's for sure. If I can get up the nerve before my friend stops housesitting, I'll follow the cord and see what it's attached to, but I would feel kind of bad. That doesn't mean I wouldn't do it, though. Pattern Recognition: yeah, let's. |
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mmmmmmmmm liquored up. |
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Somebody start. Okay, I will. Why did grandpa kill his ole self? Was the old woman with the boxes Augustine? Why did Jonathan and his tourguide companion get into a fight towards the end? What were your top five favorite visual images in the book? |
do you have an art show coming up? does much of "everything is illuminated" take place in kiev? |
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The Fluffah show has been postponed, due to my friend bailing on the gallery space. It is rescheduled to open on November 1st, which is a saturday, at the Satellite Lounge on Pike street, a block from the Comet. Sorry, Sem. Been busy. Go dust your book off. |
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HELLOOOOOO? discuss, already. |
I read a few chapters last night at the laundromat. I especially like so far the characterization. The story seems to be about the author's search for his roots, except told without relating any personal experience, which is the common way to do such a work. Instead, the search for roots is presented through the chpaters discussing the shtetl and the letters to the author from Alex. Alex cracks me up to no end. I especially take delight when he uses one word and a few pages later I realize that he meant a totally different word. the prose in the Alex chapters is a great read and really builds up that character. I really like the interaction between Alex, his gradnfather and the "hero" and am trying to figure out if there are parallels between that and the relationship of Yankel to the rest of the shtetl in the other story arc. Holy crap. I'm nearly finished, and now the book is breaking my heart, sort of. It's really fantastic how he slowly changes the tone of the novel but at the same pace throughout the three narratives. It's one of those books that you end up thinking about at times when you aren't reading it. Trying to figure out meanings and wondering if the meanings you are pondering reallyexist in teh book. And feeling like you get it but maybe you didn't sso you need to think about it some more. It left me with the same feeling as I had after seeing the movie "Spider". The one dude reminds me of Vilnius Viper. I also liked the house full of boxes. Did I mention already how I also liked the gradual transition from light-hearted and quirky to heart-wrenching and tragic in both story arcs? I think he pulled that off amazingly well. |
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all i have to do is say two words. |
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I really liked the book, can you tell? |
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