It was the wrong thread

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by Spanky
Gots to love this stuff. Fact is stranger than fiction.

You can look for the whole opinion by the bankruptcy judge (now overruled), but the best parts are here - http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/ansjudge1.html

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Is Anna Nicole Smith somehow a better name than Vicky Lynn Marshall?

Seriously.

Sure. If you introduce yourself to a slightly deaf and very nearsighted book shoppe owner on the Upper East Side, he might think you said Anna Devere Smith and give you a nice little discount, and there's nothing wrong with that, nu?

[Spanky]

I am page 560 of Until I Find You. I am having trouble getting through it. I was going to finish tonight but Sidd and Slave have filled my social calender for the evening.

Anyone else reading this? Should we choose something else?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Spanky
I am page 560 of Until I Find You. I am having trouble getting through it. I was going to finish tonight but Sidd and Slave have filled my social calender for the evening.

Anyone else reading this? Should we choose something else?

S&S Procurement, LLC?

[Spanky]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
S&S Procurement, LLC?

I was thinking more along the lines of the book Slave suggested about New Amesterdam or the book Ty suggested about England in her darkest days of WWII.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Spanky
I was thinking more along the lines of the book Slave suggested about New Amesterdam or the book Ty suggested about England in her darkest days of WWII.

sigh.

Though, it would be amusing if S&S Procurement, LLC, were actually the title of a book.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
S&S Procurement, LLC?

My dick is a Harley. You kick it to start.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
My dick is a Harley. You kick it to start.

Seriously - is any one else reading Until I Find You? Paigow?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Spanky
Seriously - is any one else reading Until I Find You? Paigow?

I read the Rabbit books, but those got really tiring. Then I tried reading his short stories, but even one was about these college English professors going through a divorce. I don't think your book club will have traction if you don't pick something people will like.

Try this: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...97639?v=glance

Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go

• All children should believe they are special. But the students of Hailsham, an elite school in the English countryside, are so special that visitors shun them, and only by rumor and the occasional fleeting remark by a teacher do they discover their unconventional origins and strange destiny. Kazuo Ishiguro's sixth novel, Never Let Me Go, is a masterpiece of indirection. Like the students of Hailsham, readers are "told but not told" what is going on and should be allowed to discover the secrets of Hailsham and the truth about these children on their own.
  
  Offsetting the bizarreness of these revelations is the placid, measured voice of the narrator, Kathy H., a 31-year-old Hailsham alumna who, at the close of the 1990s, is consciously ending one phase of her life and beginning another. She is in a reflective mood, and recounts not only her childhood memories, but her quest in adulthood to find out more about Hailsham and the idealistic women who ran it. Although often poignant, Kathy's matter-of-fact narration blunts the sharper emotional effects you might expect in a novel that deals with illness, self-sacrifice, and the severe restriction of personal freedoms. As in Ishiguro's best-known work, The Remains of the Day, only after closing the book do you absorb the magnitude of what his characters endure.

The best novelist writing today.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I don't think your book club will have traction if you don't pick something people will like.

Paigow insisted on this book. I didn't want to do fiction. But now I am getting the feeling I have been suckered.

[Anonymous Fashionista]

Originally posted by Spanky
Paigow insisted on this book. I didn't want to do fiction. But now I am getting the feeling I have been suckered.

I am.


Anon (because a partner saw it on my desk yesterday and commented on it).

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Spanky
Paigow insisted on this book. I didn't want to do fiction. But now I am getting the feeling I have been suckered.

Just announce her book has been cancelled and assign mine. Ty will have read it, and i have already- you'd like it.

Paigow is an enigma- her posts are very high brow and difficult to understand. but her cultural tastes (reality TV, john Updike) are too lowbrow and difficult to ingest. she can't be your book selecter.

[SlaveNoMore]

Spanky
Paigow insisted on this book. I didn't want to do fiction. But now I am getting the feeling I have been suckered.

Once I finish this Benjamin Franklin bio, I intend to read the new Doctorow book "The March"

[Spanky]

I am done with Until I Find You. Anyone else done?

Originally posted by Spanky
Seriously - is any one else reading Until I Find You? Paigow?

Dude, I don't even read this board.

I am going to be traveling and will pick it up once I am on a plane.