tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524497770619950288.post6024028202436770982..comments2023-12-18T18:23:05.715-05:00Comments on Marooned Off Vesta: Books read 2014Ethan Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207042480666924085noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524497770619950288.post-63982039804166979802015-01-05T14:14:35.830-05:002015-01-05T14:14:35.830-05:00I WAS.
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It's interesting because general...I WAS.<br /><br />aha.<br /><br />It's interesting because generally I think of myself as someone who prefers 2nd volumes--the messy middle--and then conclusions to the 'Star Wars: A New Hope's of this world, but just this weekend my gf, a first-one sort of person, was challenging me to name several instances of my point, and I found it more difficult to remember examples than I expected. I think in theory I still agree with me-of-Saturday, but that this alternate paradigm has a point.<br /><br />Yeah, exactly.Erin Horakovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08034155448336384411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524497770619950288.post-74494972105441830332015-01-05T13:04:09.694-05:002015-01-05T13:04:09.694-05:00WILL YOU BE EMAILED???
Sade: hah/hmm, maybe I sho...WILL YOU BE EMAILED???<br /><br />Sade: hah/hmm, maybe I should've said "should" rather than "can"<br /><br />LCRW: I was never interested in it because I figured it was all Kelly Link-lite but then I noticed that e.g. L. Timmel Duchamp essays had been published in it so I was like, maybe there's more variety than I thought? Then, four issues of Kelly Link-lite later...<br /><br />Southern Reach: thank you! I get this impression this is frequently the case now and have thoughts about it in the context of Delany's comments on blah blah blah...... (but seriously)<br /><br />Should-you-buy-it-or-not has its place, I suppose, but it's just not at all what I'm interested in (and it's deeply implicated in blah blah blah......).<br /><br />And thank you! And you too!Ethan Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11207042480666924085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524497770619950288.post-74843520590998537072015-01-05T11:28:18.246-05:002015-01-05T11:28:18.246-05:00DAMN, forgot to tick 'email me if there's ...DAMN, forgot to tick 'email me if there's a response', maybe reply to this one if you have one. Erin Horakovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08034155448336384411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524497770619950288.post-80888784794137154612015-01-05T11:27:19.158-05:002015-01-05T11:27:19.158-05:00"Nothing, perhaps, can be said about Sade&quo..."Nothing, perhaps, can be said about Sade" So why do you find Sade so unspeakable? :p<br /><br />Tbh I cannot imagine you ever liking anything *called* "Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet".<br /><br />"I liked the trilogy overall but found on balance that the second and third volumes worked primarily to contain what was so elusive and powerful about the first" An interesting point about how trilogies can work!<br /><br />" should-you-buy-it-or-not style reviewing" oh that's a good way of talking about that, yes.<br /><br />Good year-end review! Happy returns, etc.Erin Horakovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08034155448336384411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524497770619950288.post-53310201703471495072015-01-05T08:48:22.315-05:002015-01-05T08:48:22.315-05:00Oh right! I think I saw you talking about MMMD and...Oh right! I think I saw you talking about MMMD and had meant to look into it...looks like my library has not one but two copies of a 1200 page 60s Scribner edition, if the catalog isn't lying to me...Ethan Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11207042480666924085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524497770619950288.post-19171135458737719532015-01-03T10:06:58.415-05:002015-01-03T10:06:58.415-05:00A former professor and still friend has urged both...A former professor and still friend has urged both Dorothy Richardson [ (whose four volume of the thirteen has just been recalled from off-campus storage) and Marguerite Young's *Miss MacIntosh, My Darling," and considers them a bit of a pair. http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/product/miss-macintosh-my-darling-volume-1/ "MM, MD" is on my 2015 to-do, but I thought you might be interested in it. My friend has rarely steered me wrong.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.com