the inimitable craige writes (and in so doing cracks me up) in an email titled "stupid":
My co. blocks access to your comments. Your 2006 resolutions were genius. I think everyone should make such ones. 2007s are way too lofty. You will surely fail.
Until I saw your "Best Books," I figured READING Gravity's Rainbow (as oppposed to finishing) was going to count as a negative thing in 2006. That, combined with your new distaste of coffee and new love of football, made me think that maybe you're dead to me. But then you championed Children of Men, so now you yet live. Also Pan's Labyrinth!
greg, being dead to you would definitely bring me down. don't let me be dead to you.
in all honesty, i'm still not sure how i feel about gravity's rainbow; looking back on my reading experience is more like remembering a crazy, strange voyage than a book. but i didn't see how i could leave it out, if for no other reason than how much it totally took over my life for the time i was reading it.
I'm at home so I can comment. Hooray! I forgot to say that I once tried Gravity's Rainbow and that shit was insane. I don't think one actually reads that book. I think you look at the pages for a while and then turn them over and over until you get to the end and then you say, thank GOD! and then you go see a movie that has a lot of car chases.
Nice to see you posting again. I link to you from ThisFish. Here's a book that will help your football knowledge: Blind Side by Michael Lewis. A really interesting read from this year that mixes a true life story about a high school player from Memphis who is "discovered" with an account of how NFL offenses have evolved over the past 20 years or so. Highly recommend.
posted by Siouxsie at
22:39 01/06/07
Can you please fix so that my e-mail does not appear? Thanks.
posted by Siouxsie at
22:40 01/06/07
FYI, if you do enroll in an MBA program, you won't have such an awesome book list next year. I don't think I've read anything for "fun" since I started grad school, besides, like, comic books. However, I am a lazy piece of crap, so maybe that's not relevant. Hope to see you at a Cringe soon, you missed the big celebrity sighting! :)
the inimitable craige writes (and in so doing cracks me up) in an email titled "stupid":
My co. blocks access to your comments. Your 2006 resolutions were genius. I think everyone should make such ones. 2007s are way too lofty. You will surely fail.
Until I saw your "Best Books," I figured READING Gravity's Rainbow (as oppposed to finishing) was going to count as a negative thing in 2006. That, combined with your new distaste of coffee and new love of football, made me think that maybe you're dead to me. But then you championed Children of Men, so now you yet live. Also Pan's Labyrinth!
My New Year's resolution was to do more things for free, so how about we go out on dates and you pay?
greg, being dead to you would definitely bring me down. don't let me be dead to you.
in all honesty, i'm still not sure how i feel about gravity's rainbow; looking back on my reading experience is more like remembering a crazy, strange voyage than a book. but i didn't see how i could leave it out, if for no other reason than how much it totally took over my life for the time i was reading it.
I'm at home so I can comment. Hooray! I forgot to say that I once tried Gravity's Rainbow and that shit was insane. I don't think one actually reads that book. I think you look at the pages for a while and then turn them over and over until you get to the end and then you say, thank GOD! and then you go see a movie that has a lot of car chases.
Nice to see you posting again. I link to you from ThisFish. Here's a book that will help your football knowledge: Blind Side by Michael Lewis. A really interesting read from this year that mixes a true life story about a high school player from Memphis who is "discovered" with an account of how NFL offenses have evolved over the past 20 years or so. Highly recommend.
Can you please fix so that my e-mail does not appear? Thanks.
FYI, if you do enroll in an MBA program, you won't have such an awesome book list next year. I don't think I've read anything for "fun" since I started grad school, besides, like, comic books. However, I am a lazy piece of crap, so maybe that's not relevant. Hope to see you at a Cringe soon, you missed the big celebrity sighting! :)