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Nuzzolese
10-14-2005, 02:29 PM
David Rakoff has a new book out! I must geteet. I loved his earlier book, Fraud. He's a wordier, snootier David Sedaris.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=A22q5KMCHW&isbn=0385510365&itm=1
abcdefz
10-14-2005, 02:37 PM
a wordier, snootier David Sedaris.





....necessary, why? :D
Nuzzolese
10-14-2005, 02:40 PM
....necessary, why? :D

Prissies sometimes don't want any blue on their collars
Qdrop
10-14-2005, 02:42 PM
you 2 better knock it off,
or i'll start talking about Jk Rowling and dumb this whole thread down...

so help me!!
Nuzzolese
10-14-2005, 02:44 PM
Have you ever read any David Rakoff? He just writes comedy essays, nothing brain-busting unless you count his unruly sentence structure and semi-invented vocabulary. I mean he's no Lewis Carroll or anything but he does do that thing where you take a noun or a proper noun and give it the suffix of ...esque or ...ian. And sometimes he'll make a reference to something like Edvard Munch lithographs...
abcdefz
10-14-2005, 02:47 PM
Have you ever read any David Rakoff? He just writes comedy essays, nothing brain-busting unless you count his unruly sentence structure and semi-invented vocabulary. I mean he's no Lewis Carroll or anything but he does do that thing where you take a noun or a proper noun and give it the suffix of ...esque or ...ian. And sometimes he'll make a reference to something like Edvard Munch lithographs...



You talkin' to me? etc.

Nope. A friend handed me one of Sedaris' books, and I read about 2/3rds of it and just put it down. It reminded me too much of angry, vengeance queens I used to work with. Well-done, as far as that stuff goes, but too ugly for my taste.
Qdrop
10-14-2005, 02:48 PM
so like, in "The Goblet of Fire"....harry potter has to really grow up fast and....











yeah, never read fiction anymore...
i just got a new book though: "The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature" by matt ridley.
interesting read.

i also purchased The Corporation on DVD. great fuckin doc...
abcdefz
10-14-2005, 02:49 PM
i also purchased The Corporation on DVD. great fuckin doc...




...I've pulled that off the rental shelf three times now, and I keep putting it back. I should just get it.
Nuzzolese
10-14-2005, 02:50 PM
You talkin' to me? etc.

Nope. A friend handed me one of Sedaris' books, and I read about 2/3rds of it and just put it down. It reminded me too much of angry, vengeance queens I used to work with. Well-done, as far as that stuff goes, but too ugly for my taste.

Was it Barrel Fever? Some of his stuff is extremely childishly indulgent in that way I will agree, and I don't enjoy those as much. If all of his essays were like that one where a group of men kill his family then gang bang him, or that one where he is a celebrity who loves too much and broke Mike Tyson's heart, I wouldn't enjoy him. But The SantaLand Diaries are fantastic!!

"You're going to have me fired? I'm going to have you killed!"


Or the story about his younger brother, The Rooster. "Just say 'fuck it' and eat yourself some motherfucking candy."
Qdrop
10-14-2005, 02:51 PM
...I've pulled that off the rental shelf three times now, and I keep putting it back. I should just get it.

watch it..

fuck....just buy it...

tons of extra's on the DVD.
so frightening....but empowering at the same time...
Nuzzolese
10-14-2005, 02:52 PM
yeah, never read fiction anymore...

porkwah?
Qdrop
10-14-2005, 02:56 PM
porkwah?

nothing against it at all....

i just tend to be more interested in understanding the world around...making sense of it all...
it makes me feel more confident....
so i tend to read lots of science and history, politics...
Nuzzolese
10-14-2005, 03:01 PM
Well, I can understand that more direct approach to learning about the world, but I also think you can learn from everything you do. So, there's what I have to say about it.
Qdrop
10-14-2005, 03:02 PM
but I also think you can learn from everything you do. So, there's what I have to say about it.

and yet i learn nothing....NOTHING!!
Nuzzolese
10-14-2005, 03:05 PM
and yet i learn nothing....NOTHING!!

You might be handicapped.
TAL
10-14-2005, 03:12 PM
And in other news:

Old books still available!
icy manipulator
10-15-2005, 01:26 PM
someone just tell me when the next raymod e fiest book comes out and i;ll be happy