halifax_slasher ([info]halifax_slasher) wrote,
@ 2007-08-03 01:55:00
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Entry tags:books, non-florilegium

What we're reading: July list
Wyeth, Sharon Dennis. A Piece of Heaven (2001).
Nietzsche. Untimely Meditations (1873-1876 (coll. 1893)).
Heaney, Francis. Holy Tango of Literature (2004).
Carroll, Lewis. Phantasmagoria (1869).
Chandler, Raymond. Farewell, My Lovely (1940).
Sedaris, David. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004).
Snorre Sturlason. Heimskringla, or The Lives of the Norse Kings (Smith) (ca. 1235).
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007).
Girard, René. "To double business bound": Essays on Literature, Mimesis, and Anthropology (1964-1978).
Irving, Christopher. Peter Bagge (2007).
McEwan, Ian. On Chesil Beach (2007).
Rall, Ted. To Afghanistan and Back (2002).
Wolk, Douglas. Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean (2007).


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Hal, I know that guy
(Anonymous)
2007-08-03 11:45 am UTC (link)
I know Francis, the author of "Holy Tango." I've had dinner with him and you met him at my husband's birthday party. Did you already know that?

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Re: Hal, I know that guy
(Anonymous)
2007-08-03 12:17 pm UTC (link)
(says Sumana)

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Re: Hal, I know that guy
[info]halifax_slasher
2007-08-03 03:33 pm UTC (link)
Yea, I sought it out deliberately after he mentioned its existence.

The evidence: a little detective work, and you will see that I read his book immediately after the book I was reading at said party.

I recommend it; anyway, my favorite therein:

WE LONG BONY DORKS
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

The Mathletes.
Seven in the Computer Lab.

We long bony dorks. We
Real big on quarks. We

Quote Python lines. We
Know arcs and sines. We

Not good at sports. We
Black socks with shorts. We

Beat up at noon. We
Out-earn you soon.

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[info]ericbuttface2
2007-08-03 01:30 pm UTC (link)
You read a Ted Rall book? Why?

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[info]halifax_slasher
2007-08-03 03:46 pm UTC (link)
The dialectic only spins with conflict.

And the book was unintentionally hilarious. My favorite howler: Rall includes a photo of a POW who claimed to be be Uzbeki but whose Afghan Northern Alliance captors claimed was Pakistani. Why the distinction matters here I don't know, but the photo gives Ted Rall an opportunity to smug and prance about over how he sees to the core truths of situations. He snidely implies that the charge is ludicrous because the man is wearing an Uzbeki hat. That's right, in Rallworld a Pakistani pretending to be an Uzbeki would never think to change hats.

Look, I was a professional spy for thirty years, and I can assure you, in spy school, "change hats" is like lesson one.

Free Dirty Danny!

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