Complete Stories - Dorothy Parker


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By The Watcher on Friday, November 21, 2014 - 03:41 am:

    I'm currently reading The complete Stories by Dorothy Parker.

    I decided to read this book because of her reputation as a "Great Wit".

    I have discovered through her writing that she obviously suffered from depression and drank an awful lot.

    I can't stop reading this book. Although I have found most of her stories quite depressing, her dialog and characters I can't seem to resist.


By droopy on Friday, November 21, 2014 - 10:09 pm:

    i have tried to find a Dorothy Parker collection
    in my local library. without luck. i did find
    Westward, Ha! by S.J. Perelman (another "great
    wit").

    right now, i'm in the middle of The Last Picture
    Show, by Larry McMurtry. in all the years i've
    lived in texas, this is the first time i've picked
    up a Larry McMurtry book. i was inspired to do so
    because i found out that a relative of mine had
    been a school teacher in Archer City, Texas at
    about the same time Larry McMurtry was in high
    school there. the novel is a fictionalized account
    of Archer City. it was about the time i got to the
    chapter with the gang rape of a cow by a bunch of
    high school kids, that i thought: damn.


By Pepper on Saturday, November 22, 2014 - 06:01 pm:

    That's so sick.


By droopy on Sunday, November 23, 2014 - 07:51 pm:

    texas: where the men are men and the livestock are scared


By Pepper on Sunday, November 23, 2014 - 08:59 pm:


By droopy on Monday, November 24, 2014 - 12:26 am:

    by the time i finished the book, i was glad i
    read it; but i wasn't moved by it. then again, i
    don't think anything can move me anymore. the best
    parts of the book, for me, were about ruth, sam the
    lion, and lois farrow. without them, the story of
    the teenagers would have been more like "fast times
    at ridgemont high."

    i'll have to see the movie some time.


By The Watcher on Wednesday, November 26, 2014 - 03:00 am:

    I finished Dorothy Parker.

    The last half was much better.


By Pepper on Wednesday, November 26, 2014 - 04:08 pm:

    Hey The Watcher, long time no hear. How is your wife? Not much going on at work. Work slow today.


By The Watcher on Thursday, December 25, 2014 - 04:31 am:

    My wife is doing better. She can sometimes actually speak a little without a special valve in her trachea tube.


By J on Sunday, December 28, 2014 - 01:58 am:

    Ny heart and prayers go out to you hon.


By The Watcher on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 03:28 am:

    Thanks J.


By The Watcher on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 03:31 am:

    My wife is speaking with a certain valve in her tracheostomy tube.

    I made a big mistake last Friday. I asked for them to give her a telephone.

    She called me five times on Saturday.


By droopy on Monday, April 13, 2015 - 05:23 am:

    i recently discovered the existence of, but not a
    handy source of books by, a woman who was known as
    "the dorothy parker of crime fiction." it was one
    of those google chain discoveries: i was looking
    up the actress nina foch, who was once married to
    james lipton (the actor's studio guy) whose father
    was beat poet lawrence poet who had been married
    to craig rice.

    craig rice turned out to be gnome de plume of
    Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig. she wrote a lot of
    mystery novels back in the 40s and 50s that were a
    combination of hard-boiled crime and screwball
    comedy.

    sounded like fun.