Diamond in the rough

[quixoticmonkey]

It's not really like I have some kind of "heart knocked good and swelled up, a month overdue to burst, eraserhead for abortion" affliction that it couldn't be helped to let it out now. Frankly the worst thing about writers block is the sedated comfort one can get from the total lack of responsibilities one feels in his life once the employment

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[sweetpea_girl]

ha, i think i shall need to make you a soundtrack to your resident insanity, love. though putting the thought of a heartbreaking work of staggering genius made me retch a bit. and as for that thin line, isn't it better to walk it while slightly inebriated? helps the balance and all...

[quixoticmonkey]

Hey, don't knock the Eggers.

[sweetpea_girl]

i'm glad every person whose parents dies doesn't feel the compulsion to whine about it for an entire book. it was bad dearie.

[quixoticmonkey]

I don't remember it being as whiney as you say, but I do remember it being very self-referential so he may have talked about that at some point. Either way, it wasn't BAD, as you say, and I think the reason it was so well recieved was BECAUSE every person didn't do what he did. But that's just my opinion... I'm really more attracted to his style, not is character.

[sweetpea_girl]

bad is a matter of opinion, and mine is that it was bad, sucked, blew, etc etc... and i still don't know what it is that was so freaking great that he did.. whatever darling, it's not worth arguing over. one of those agree to disagree and mutter in our respective corners about the others lack of taste. xo

[quixoticmonkey]

Mature sentiments, I'd say. So what kind of stuff are you reading lately?

[sweetpea_girl]

birthing books, name books, and tubspigot1 sent me "the good soldier svejk" by jaroslav hasek to entertain me. you should join my novelswap community for shits'n'giggles...

[quixoticmonkey]

Probably would be a good idea for me to join ANY kind of community advocating reading. I think I'm starting to forget my Hooked on Phonics courses.

[sweetpea_girl]

i've heard that reading stimulates the nerve cells and such. and being free and all (besides cost to ship books), good brain food.