02-23-2013, 01:26 PM | #166 |
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It is. As it just hits random characters, at some point, a copy of each of the classics has to roll out of that typewriter. That's inevitable.
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02-23-2013, 01:26 PM | #167 |
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I have never run into anyone expressing any sort of snobbery towards the books I read. Usually it is more surprise expressed by those who know how many books I read that I have not read any of the latest best sellers or much talked about titles. Now television is another matter. It has been years since I have watched television, and so run into instances like having nothing to say about the apparently shocking ending to Downtown Abbey because I have never even viewed a moment of that.
I must admire your ability to manage that. When I read I soon cannot even hear music that I might have been playing. I've been told that once I really get into reading mode a bomb could go off and I would not notice that. Yes, pot calling the kettle black. I recently read an online article about that. Romance covers featuring shirtless young hunks of men versus Science Fiction covers featuring nubile young women in skimpy clothing. The comments were interesting in how those pro and con comments broke down in the sex of the people making the comments. |
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02-23-2013, 01:28 PM | #168 |
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I don't know about monkeys on typewriters, but I know for a fact that I've read some stories written by monkeys on computers.....but I'm not going to name any names.
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02-23-2013, 01:32 PM | #169 |
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I'd have liked to be alive when paperback publishers were able to sell Faulkner and Aldous Huxley by littering the covers with decolletages and phrases like Shocking! . . . Bold!
If every publisher still did things like that, we wouldn't be having these discussions about the supposedly exclusive strata of literature and genre fiction. A professor's reading list is not necessarily more dry or devoid of grunting than anyone else's. |
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One other thing:
It's valuable to make a distinction between assessing books and judging the people who read them. If someone wishes to assert that The Ape-Gland-Enhanced Tusk-Hunting Cyclopes of Glagnia 12* is better than the complete works of Wallace Stevens, I might take issue with that evaluation. What I would not question is the validity or "level" (I hate that word) of the person who offered it. §*§*§*§*§*§*§ * Readers of all kinds of '50s-'70s writers will be familiar with the ironic use of pulp titles and conventions -- a practice which has engendered entire modes of genre and meta-genre fiction. Without writers like Angela Carter and Philip K. Dick, '90s shows like BtVS and films like Ginger Snaps would not exist. Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 02-23-2013 at 02:05 PM. |
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02-23-2013, 03:13 PM | #174 |
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Sparkly vampires are easy on the eye! Will take them over ordinary kind any day. I believe I'd look much more favorably on zombies too if they'd sport some occasional sparkle... or at least some glow-in-the-dark.
Actually, I have quite a lot against people who declare "I don't read romance! (crime, fantasy, etc.)" and when you ask which one they didn't like, they tell you proudly that they have never touched the genre. If I meet that person often, I'll keep pestering until they read at least half of the (carefully chosen by discussing preferences) book and can tell me why it was boring. Then we can try try another author... I'm rather bored by crime and detective mysteries (tv fills that need better), nowadays only crime author I will give my time to is Dick Francis. Last edited by travger; 02-23-2013 at 03:16 PM. |
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I enjoy giving my girlfriend things that make her squeal partly because I've been conditioned not to make that sound myself. I probably don't know how.
She, on the nether hind, has been taught to believe that squealing is entirely appropriate. Gender anthropology is largely arbitrary, yet social adaptation sometimes depends on it. We ought to get that fixed. Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 02-23-2013 at 09:37 PM. |
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