Friday, April 01, 2005


				
				
					 
					 
Two Anticlimactic Books

					 
				

				


				
1. Homeland, by Sam Lipsyte.  
Dick-lit.  At least now I know why his interviews are so funny*.

2. Ishmael, by David Quinn.  
It was The Matrix, replete with a shaky premise, one-dimensional characters, and stilted dialogue.  Recommended earnestly by a certain snide English teacher, but recommended wrong.

I think I've overdosed a bit on contemporary fiction.  Luckily, Virginia Woolf is here to save the day.

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*...inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. - Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray


				


				

					posted by Debbie at 9:56 PM