tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1721928287251297341.post3787946736546847343..comments2023-09-26T10:11:51.375-05:00Comments on The Great Whatever: leap into proseAmyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10882504803342773610noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1721928287251297341.post-52689926226916246822009-02-19T13:27:00.000-05:002009-02-19T13:27:00.000-05:00Lovely blog. Thanks for the novel advice. Will lik...Lovely blog. Thanks for the novel advice. Will likely take it. <BR/><BR/>2 cents: I recently read Roth's Indignation and Jim Harrison's The English Major in rapid succession. Minimalist vs baroque. Quite an experience.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1721928287251297341.post-12476614258611261662009-01-21T13:36:00.000-05:002009-01-21T13:36:00.000-05:00Diane, I will check out your new book! And CB--agr...Diane, I will check out your new book! And CB--agree completely.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10882504803342773610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1721928287251297341.post-56735112853510359372009-01-18T17:50:00.000-05:002009-01-18T17:50:00.000-05:00Hi Amy, never commented here, but here goes.I read...Hi Amy, never commented here, but here goes.<BR/><BR/>I read Sawtelle, too, and liked aspects of it a lot. I liked his prose, which was lyrical yet remained naturalistic and psychologically acute. But I thought he was far too wed to the Hamlet plot, and sometimes forced his story to fit that one. Also? The pov shifts in the chapters where Edgar runs away, the ones that leave Edgar's perspective for maybe only a half a page, just so we can see Edgar and the dogs moving through the woods and a little girl noticing them? It seemed like a cheap scene from a Hollywood movie. Look how amazing this kid and his dogs are, how a part of the landscape they are, spooky and grand. That sort of thing. It desperately needed editing, and an editor who would have talked to the writer about freeing himself up from the Hamlet plot in some spots. But again, the prose itself was lovely.Christopher Barzakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317256912942472481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1721928287251297341.post-21427644700946814302009-01-12T17:20:00.000-05:002009-01-12T17:20:00.000-05:00If you want some more poetry to read I have a newl...If you want some more poetry to read I have a newly published chapbook!Diane Vogel Ferrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11982295772104313292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1721928287251297341.post-46695404834776464122009-01-10T18:41:00.000-05:002009-01-10T18:41:00.000-05:00Maureen: in agreement with you. EOB: your definiti...Maureen: in agreement with you. <BR/>EOB: your definition of disisate is great. I'm staying away from Twilight only because I'm afraid it'll cut into my TV time. (Ha.)<BR/>Diane: yeah, Edgar Sawtelle needed some slicing...Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10882504803342773610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1721928287251297341.post-35888945580311528642009-01-05T18:07:00.000-05:002009-01-05T18:07:00.000-05:00I liked Edgar Sawtelle - although much too long. ...I liked Edgar Sawtelle - although much too long. Also read "The Hour I First Believed" (550 pgs) but much more fast-paced, almost too much happening.Diane Vogel Ferrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11982295772104313292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1721928287251297341.post-13867777072782300702009-01-05T15:57:00.000-05:002009-01-05T15:57:00.000-05:00Can you believe it? I was asked to lead a fun clas...Can you believe it? I was asked to lead a fun class on the "Twilight" series at Lakeland, so I'm reading all 2000+ pages of something written by a Mormon.<BR/><BR/>###<BR/><BR/>"disisate" is my word verification test for this comment. Now THAT should be a word meaning <I>the state of being disappointed with one's state of not being disappointed.</I>Erin O'Brienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09089592061725346901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1721928287251297341.post-62068969747038543192009-01-05T15:08:00.000-05:002009-01-05T15:08:00.000-05:00I read The Emperor's Children and while I found it...I read The Emperor's Children and while I found it sufficient for a plane ride, I sold it to Half Proce books. When Austen did a comedy of manners, it stepped lightly but revealed great hideous cracks int he social structure. The Emperor's Children was neither as light, nor as instructive.Maureen McHughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130090850491900655noreply@blogger.com