This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by evenodds

I absolutely second this. Knapp is a terrific writer and her story is compelling.

Sadly, the chain smoking killed her a few years ago. Real shame.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

There is a large basket of community books in our kitchen at my firm. It is mostly Grisham standard-fare type stuff. Should I replace the current books with fifty copies of Mein Kampf or Catcher in the Rye?

Great project. It all depends on what you want to project; Illinois Nazi or hipster doofus. I'd stay true to yourself and choose Everybody Poops.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Flinty_McFlint

Great project. It all depends on what you want to project; Illinois Nazi or hipster doofus. I'd stay true to yourself and choose Everybody Poops.

I just want to freak people out.

[evenodds]

Originally Posted by Flinty_McFlint

Great project. It all depends on what you want to project; Illinois Nazi or hipster doofus. I'd stay true to yourself and choose Everybody Poops.

Doesn't Catcher project "I haven't read a novel since junior year"?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

nevermind.

Anyway, why not mix it up a bit more than 50 copies of the same thing and instead put in, say, 25 different cookbooks and a bunch of travel books.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

I just want to freak people out.

If the idea is to give the impression that everyone in the firm has read the same book and thinks all the new folks should, too, then I think your performance piece would be enhanced by making it 49 copies of Mein Kampf and one copy of The Diary of Anne Frank -- now you've added some narrative interest.

Or 49 copies of Starship Troopers and one of The Metamorphosis -- it's all good.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by evenodds

Doesn't Catcher project "I haven't read a novel since junior year"?

Of course, but haven't many serial killers been influenced by it?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

A woman who has been missing from her South Lake Tahoe home has reportedly surfaced in Concord, 18 years after she was kidnapped.

Jaycee Dugard, who would be 29 today, apparently walked into the Concord Police Department on Wednesday. Concord police have declined comment, referring inquiries to the El Dorado County sheriff's office. A news conference is scheduled for today.

Dugard was last seen on June 10, 1991 as she was walking to a bus stop in South Lake Tahoe. Dugard, a blue-eyed, blond 11-year-old dressed in a pink top and pink pants, set out to catch the bus to her school near South Lake Tahoe. She never made it.

As her stepfather watched helplessly from the family's driveway on a hill about two blocks away, a two- tone gray sedan pulled up and someone yanked the girl into the car and sped off. Even though officers responded within minutes, no trace of the car or girl was ever found.

SFGate

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

I just want to freak people out.

Isn't your mere presence at the office enough?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Infinite Jest made me want to go to AA, just to check it out.

Sort of like a trip to the zoo? I'm thinking most AA members wouldn't be thrilled by that.

And do you remember the passage in Infinite Jest where the guy was talking about how, after being sober for awhile, he finally took a normal shit -- "A toord! I looked and saw a real toord!" If that's the kind of spectacle you go for.....

But I also think that while I drink regularly, I don't have a problem, and that I would have trouble with that there.

I've talked about this with people 'in the know' -- people who work professionally in dealing with alcoholism, and/or have gone through rehab themselves. The issue isn't regularity, but dependence. One person told me that he was actually shocked to learn, back in his early rehab days, that people actually drink alcohol because they like the taste. He didn't even realize it tasted good, despite having drunk a few carloads of booze in his time. I think you're a big distance from that.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

You reject Oysters Rockefeller?

I do. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

is the prohibition on blow jobs after marriage old testament or from the Talmud?

Ann Landers

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen

Okay, that's an abomination. Oysters shouldn't be cooked.

Next time you are in New Orleans, go to Cochon and try the barbecued oysters with house-cured bacon. You will change your mind about this statement with the first taste.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

I think you're a big distance from that.

Given Ty's stated "taste" in wine, I think you're a bit on a limb here.

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Flinty_McFlint

Great project. It all depends on what you want to project; Illinois Nazi or hipster doofus. I'd stay true to yourself and choose Everybody Poops.

I've explained this to you before. The book doesn't have the same compelling sense of drama for others that is has for you.