Posts by Jolisa
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From the "I wish I'd thought of that earlier" file: my funny brother suggests that next time, instead of LUQs, I call them Flummoxing Unanswered Questions.
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We did Lear, and I loved it. Have made a point of seeing every production of it that I can. ( Ran included - wow, buckets of blood!).
I'm tempted to try Jasper fforde again on the basis of the enthusiasm here. I so wanted to love him (for the dodos alone!) but it just all got a smidge too whimsical for me. At the time, anyway. I'll try again.
SallyR, that's a great suggestion. And what an interesting counterpoint to the original subject of the thread: sharing the knowledge, in an ethical way; credit where credit is due; respecting the people whose stories you tell, etc.
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Link fixed, sorry about that Ngaire. (I just want to call you BookieMonster all the time. Such a great name :-)
"Sucks" pretty much sums it up, really. If I'd hit on that word yesterday, I could have saved myself several thousand words.
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Jess: ditto on Truly, Madly, Deeply. It's a great film, even if I have a bit of a Frank Spencer moment when the new boyfriend starts hopping. (And I wish they hadn't added in the extraneous instruments when Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson sing Sun Ain't Gonna Shine, just cos it breaks the illusion a bit).
And Cecelia, me too. Interesting that for both IHimaera and Grace, the stories are (for the most part) traditionally "realist," but the novels are where the spirit dimension kicks in. I loved Baby No-Eyes_ and Dogside Story. But I know a few people who were forced to read Potiki at school and still shudder.
Hmm, perhaps that's true of any novel you're forced to read at school? Then again, maybe not: I bonded fiercely with all my obligatory school reading, and those novels and plays and poems still have a palpable aura for me. They practically glow on the shelves or on the page. Perhaps because it was the first time I could see that it was possible to enlarge and prolong the charge that I got from reading alone, by returning to the text after talking about it with others...
And of course by "others" I mean the teacher. I was That Kid.
(But weren't we all? All of us in this room, I mean?)
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LUQ: If the New Zealand division of the largest publishing groups on Earth can't -- or won't -- invest time, money and care in basic editing of (arguably) it's highest profile author, are there other plagiarists on the Penguin list? And if there are, does anyone at Penguin give a shit?
Actually, Craig, that reminds me of another of my own, a variant on yours: if this is the best editing that Penguin NZ's highest profile author gets, then what can the fresh young thing who submits their great but slightly imperfect manuscript expect in the way of editorial guidance?
All writing creatures, great and small, need editing. (Thanks to Fergus, TheMorgan, and Sacha - so far - for tidying up parts of my post!).
I haven't read The Devil's Cut, but for me Hell = the absence of a library, or indeed, of any reading matter whatsoever. I would go mad pretty quickly. Or finally get around to writing something, I suppose, assuming they had writing implements and fire-proof paper.
Rachael: She said what? Two babies and two published novels strikes me as amazingly productive for anyone who's still got a 3 on the front of their birthday card ( and a rock'n'roll past under their belt).
BenW: you,me and the Colonel are in good company. (Indeed, by comparison to most on that page, Rachael and islander are infant prodigies).
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Sounds good. I'm aiming to post a proper booky post tomorrow... a palate-cleanser, as it were.
I'm a bit of a pluralist though - Books of the Year sounds good to me. I can never have just one :-)
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Hey New Zealand, you're quite neat
A rugby team only France can beat
A small contribution to rising heat
God! Kumara is nice to eat.Now that's what I'm talking about. I think we can weave Stephen's lines in now:
Got to admit it is quite sweet
Despite our stinky jandalled feet*
We deserve an occasional treat
Cos we live in New Zeeeeeealand.* Alt. That sheep are good for wool and meat.
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I thought the Van was way further up the song, but I just checked out the lyrics and Rob's right.
So the tune is decent, and with a bit of syncopation it could really swing, but man, are those lyrics due for an overhaul. "Men of every creed and race"? That's not OK.
We could do better amongst ourselves, and do it by Friday. "Hey New Zealand, you're quite neat". Take it away, PAS.
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Ha, Stephen. I feel like I just wrote it. Skipping straight to the screenplay now.
Definitely not 20, uh, "yet". I think I'm running out of time to be a child prodigy (thank goodness I didn't publish any of those 20-something mumblings). Am aiming to be a spectacular late-bloomer instead.
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Horrified, but not surprised, at the talk of school bully-language unchanged after decades.
You'd never get away with that over here (although funnily enough you can get away with ribbing a kid for being an atheist -- our then 7 year old didn't mind too much, as it gave him a chance to explain the logic of atheism, which usually bored the other children into submission).
But I really just popped in to belated high-five Ben W for this:
Surely the nation's Van can be found hanging out with the nation's Munter.
The anthem will never be the same, in my head.