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Post by dwanollah on Aug 8, 2010 21:47:26 GMT -4
Does this mean y'all're ready to talk about my thesis now...?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2010 22:27:17 GMT -4
Does this mean y'all're ready to talk about my thesis now...? If it's about Little Women/Louisa May Alcott, sure! |
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Post by dwanollah on Aug 9, 2010 9:30:13 GMT -4
My one big published article (so far) also talks about the dubious choice of Prof. Bhaer as the husband of a writer, and parallels it to Emily of New Moon and Teddy Kent. "Kunstlerroman" is my middle name. Sorta.  Yeah, I can appreciate where Fritz was a radical choice in general as a husband, but what pisses me off is that the two equals/woman-on-top couple--Jo and Laurie--had to be undercut in favor of Jo marrying Professor Daddy and Laurie marrying Little Girl Ornament to Society. But again, Alcott knew what side her bread was buttered on, and made no bones about doin' it all for the cash, so when her publishers said "No, Jo has to get married," she subverted it the best she could ("I went and made a funny match for her"). And Bhaer is a... dangerously likable character sometimes, which makes is moralizing and restricting even more problamatic. Sort of like Dean Priest in Montgomery's Emily books. Which was my article's point, see? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2010 15:42:52 GMT -4
That all does make sense. I like Professor Bhaer a lot more than I like Teddy Kent, though. (Though not as much as I like Laurie.) However, I feel that LMM did set up the Teddy/Emily pairing better than Alcott set up Jo/Prof. Bhaer. Not only could you see it coming, but you did feel Emily's attraction to Teddy, even if he himself was sort of two-dimensional. Jo, on the other hand, had plenty of chemistry with Laurie but I never felt that she had any with the Professor.
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Post by chitowngirl on Aug 10, 2010 18:54:41 GMT -4
My own unpopular literary opinion is that I hate Anne Tyler books. They're just so depressing (and not in a cathartic way). I find her characters so fascinatingly weird that I can't stop reading. And I am also fascinated that all these people are living in Baltimore! I like that in a John Waters kind of way. |
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Post by incognito on Sept 9, 2010 17:10:30 GMT -4
After seeing the trailer for Howl, I gotta say... I'm not a huge fan of Allen Ginsberg, or the rest of the Beat Generation.
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Post by chonies on Sept 9, 2010 19:40:17 GMT -4
After seeing the trailer for Howl, I gotta say... I'm not a huge fan of Allen Ginsberg, or the rest of the Beat Generation. The only Beat literature I like is Howl, which I didn't know was being made into a movie. Is it a documentary? I like the energy and emotion behind it, and its shortness. In my generous moods, I like to pretend Howl is the only example of beat lit, and I haven't read a lot of other Ginsberg. I hate Beat because it's painful to read and the partially-understood manifesto of choice by hipster jerks and the woecake-eating poseurs. Believe me, I get it. I just hate it. See also: Charles Bukowski. It's so delta male, and whiny and waah. |
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Post by incognito on Sept 9, 2010 20:26:18 GMT -4
Nah, it's not a documentary. It's about Ginsberg when he was dealing with the obscenity trial over Howl, with James Franco in the lead role.
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Post by chonies on Sept 9, 2010 22:06:09 GMT -4
Oh, hell no. Thanks for the clue, incognito.
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Post by incognito on Sept 15, 2010 10:03:04 GMT -4
I don't think that Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro is that great. And I really wanted to like it, too: I read the synopsis before the book came out, was intrigued, hustled to buy the hardcover when it was finally released, and...was underwhelmed.
Also, the Percy Jackson series isn't that great either. The writing style isn't very engaging IMO.
The other day, I was talking to a friend, and the discussion turned to books. I said that I didn't like a particular book, and my friend said, "Yeah, but you don't like anything." LOL. I realize though that there is more truth to my friend's words than I had realized. I consider myself a voracious reader, but yeah, rarely do I actually really like the stuff I read. It's not like I'm deliberately reading stuff I think I'd hate, or that my standards for literature are abnormally high (I think). IDK...
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