Comments | fahye: who knows how to make love stay?

fahye

who knows how to make love stay?

Sep 26, 2006 10:30

One of the stories in Peter Høeg's collection Tales of the Night has replaced Murder Mysteries as my new favourite short story. It's called An Experiment in the Constancy of Love and it's like it was entirely written with me in mind. It's about a female physicist who develops a theory of love and sets out to test it scientifically and I can't even ( Read more... )

quotable, bookworm

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voleuse September 26 2006, 00:49:13 UTC

I love that story! Though I now cannot remember any of it, except for the "She is also a psychopath" line. That was awesome.

fahye September 26 2006, 00:51:58 UTC

Yes! Have you read Peter Høeg's other stuff? I wish I could write half as well as he can. He's a like a more delicate, less genre-driven version of Neil Gaiman.

voleuse September 26 2006, 00:55:20 UTC

I have read this collection and Smilla's Sense of Snow. I keep meaning to pick up his other novels, and then forgetting. Alas!

fahye September 26 2006, 07:08:38 UTC

Borderliners is good, very thought-provoking, though I prefer Smilla - it has a more cohesive plot and more engaging characters. I am yet to track down The History of Danish Dreams, and I have one other of his sitting on my shelf awaiting reading.

schiarire September 26 2006, 01:19:07 UTC

If you don't, how will I ever speak to you again? That's all you should have to consider.

fahye September 26 2006, 07:10:08 UTC

(One of the other stories has SMALLPOX.)

When I get carpal tunnel, YOU will be blamed. Actually, I need to go borrow my mother's recipe-book stand, so that I can see and type an entire double page spread at a time.

princessofmu September 26 2006, 01:50:15 UTC

Yum!

unravels September 26 2006, 03:45:06 UTC

:O Et tu, Fahye??

*looks up*

fahye September 26 2006, 07:09:03 UTC

I'M SORRY. IT'S THAT GOOD.

un_fallen September 26 2006, 13:40:41 UTC

But now I will have to read this new story. What if I like it better?

*adopts emo pose*

fahye September 26 2006, 13:47:14 UTC

You may have to take that risk! Though even though I have compared Høeg and Gaiman (it's an imagination thing) their styles - and the stories - are different enough that it's easy to like both, for very different things.

I went through a brief period of wanting insanely to play the protagonist of the story and then realised that I would just be playing...myself. Which could be fun, but a but pointless.

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