book stuff

[scarletts_awry]

Freema GIP.

Having just read Idoru, I'm startled by how much it seems Gibson influenced me as a writer. I haven't read him in forever, but I remember Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive having a big impact on me. Oh, and The Difference Engine, which he co-wrote with Bruce Sterling

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[metatarsus]

Gah, I looooved Midnight's Children! I took a whole course called 'Fiction of India' in my third year of Uni and that was one of the books we read. If you have any interest in other India-related novels I highly recommend Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand and The Man-Eater Of Malgudi by R.K. Narayan.

Also, <3 for Tristram Shandy. Didn't they make a movie out of that recently? I'm curious to see how they actually did it!

[scarletts_awry]

Tristram Shandy as a movie? Huh. How the hell *would* someone do that?

I've taken a couple postcolonial lit courses on both the undergrad and grad level, but none specifically on India. I'll definitely check those two novels out.

[metatarsus]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0423409/

??? I am really wanting to see this now.

[scarletts_awry]

I was chatting with stellaluna- when I saw your comment. She hasn't seen it, but she remembers it got good reviews.

[gin200168]

Never read any fo those, but if you ever decide to pick up Michael Pollan's "Botany of Desire", I'd gladly talk about that....

fic post is on to do list, (read part of it, liked the part had gotten to.) along with stel's 2 latest alphabet posts.

[scarletts_awry]

Huh. I read very little non-fiction, but Botany of Desire looks interesting

[limmenel]

I read Clive Barker's "The Great and Secret Show" in 12th grade, which was probably too young to read it. I loved it quite a bit, but I really didn't understand a lot of it... it's a very heavy book, but the story is intriguing and unique. I was in a Philosophy course at the local community college when I was reading it, though, which I think helped me to understand it a lot more.

Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" is on my to-read-someday list, too!

[scarletts_awry]

I've never read Clive Barker before, but it looked like a hell of an interesting novel and the sort of thing that would be right up my alley.

I don't get the chance to re-read much anymore, but I always find it interesting to look back at things I read years ago and how my perception shifts on the re-read. I mean, I *hated* Nathaniel Hawthorne in high school because I just didn't get it, but now he's absolutely one of my favorite 19th century authors.

[limmenel]

Clive Barker has a YA series that's absolutely fantastic, if you like that kind of thing. Abarat. It's gorgeous and genius.