Posts by Emma Hart
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a shiriken death to d'arcy
Tricky, when in my head he's standing on the lakeshore, his wet white shirt plastered to his torso, holding an AK-47 and screaming 'yippie-ki-ay motherfucker'. That's what you people have done to my psyche.
However. You'll get no traction dissing P&P, Tibby, but I'll give you Persuasion and Mansfield Park. Both main characters make me desperately want to slap them until they grow a freaking spine.
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Politician A: Why are you so fat?
Politician B: Coz every time I sleep with your wife she gives me a biscuit.This has always mildly puzzled me. If you're doing it even close to right that should result in a net weight reduction.
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Philistines.
LOL. (i knew that would draw you out)
I simply wasn't going to sink to acknowledging your attempts at baiting.
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Is it Pamela or Clarissa that continues to write in her diary as she is raped?
Pamela. Fielding's pisstake contains a fabulous section where she tries to fend off her attacker with one hand while frantically scribbling in her notebook with the other.
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Emma: can we rename this the foofy tosh file?
I'm charmed that we're asking my permission to do things now.
So, no we bloody can't, not if you're going to stick Toy Story in there. That movie was every parent's dream: something you can watch with your kids without sending your brain out back with a bottle of gin first.
Anyway, the Foofy Tosh files start with Georgette bloody Heyer.
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here's a question... how many of the critics on this list have actually written a novel?
Ah, time to make a clean breast of it. I'll just go get the soap.
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I have. All the way to the end and everything. It was about a group of uni students who belong to this Classics club who commit a murder and cover it up, and what happens after that.
About a fortnight after I finished it, someone (possibly Sayana) lent me The Secret History. I cried.
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No one has yet mentioned my favourite unfinished read - Pamela. Has anyone actually managed to read it all the way through? Why and how?
Because it was a set text for a 200-level Novel course, and with sort of growing incredulity and horror that it really was going to end the way it looked like it was going to end, with all the stomach-churning horror attendant on that and it's STILL better than Clarissa.
But we did also have Shamela set, to cleanse the palette. I liked Tristram Shandy, though, I really did.
Re: the comments about Heinlein a bit back, Job is the only Heinlein still on my shelf. It's actually fun, and it's where I learned what a San Francisco Sandwich was.
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Sayana
Anything for you dahling...
Emma from earlier
Sounds like a fun game. Not sure how productive it would be, but I am willing to give it a try. Now, I'll just need to get me a maid...
Aheheh. Aheheheheheheh.
I also found The Naked Lunch to be so utterly depressing I had to stop reading it.
Ditto.
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I loved Secret History for much the same reason that Emma stated (and possibly the same conversation). What I never forgave Donna Tartt for was her second book: The Little Friend
The advance warning on that one was one of the nicest things you've ever done for me.
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The second series was a repeat of the first series, which a couple of characters changed, taking place on a different continent, with many of the same things happening. Rather terrible.
Then he wrote the Elenium, which was the same story but the characters had different names, as did the world. I gave up after just a couple of chapters.
My kids read the Belgariad when they were about 8 or 10 and loved it, and I think in that context it's a good read.