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Comment on the year of magical thinking- Joan Didion by Bonnie Shepard

Bonnie Shepard — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:33:42 +0000

Hi Beth, I just saw the play tonight. What an intense experience. Anyway, i will ask you something I was too shy to ask the people next to me.. I missed the last two lines she spoke, because some really loud sirens distracted me (And I think distraacted her, there was a really long pause before she spoke the lines) Do you (or anyone reading this) happen to remember what she said at the very end? thanks, Bonnie

Comment on the year of magical thinking- Joan Didion by Beth

Beth — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:29:30 +0000

If you can get to NYC before April 25, so see the stage adaptation (written BY Didion) starring Vanessa Redgrave. Solo. On stage for 110 minutes. It is breathtaking!!

Comment on Talk to her by like a tea-tray in the sky: Alice Bachini-Smith » a quiet few days

like a tea-tray in the sky: Alice Bachini-Smith » a quiet few days — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:28:44 +0000

[…] an inanimate yet technically alive woman in a pure and innocent yet also sexual way- the other was Talk To Her. I now feel compelled to shout: if that’s what Catholics regard as love then they are […]

Comment on Crime and Punishment by alice

alice — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:54:46 +0000

I loved the ending, but I’m sympathetic to the ideas it expresses- so that’s good to hear. Great books should speak to everyone.

Comment on Crime and Punishment by Greg

Greg — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:02:12 +0000

I finished reading Crime and Punishment this past December. I found it was one of those books where it was not the ending, but the journey the itself was most enjoyable.

Comment on Time’s Arrow by alice

alice — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:32:00 +0000

Thank you all for coming here, by the way. It’s nice to have some conversation!

I found the whole thing inherently confusing, as I think it was supposed to be. I wanted to stop and read the sentences in reverse order throughout, for instance (which doesn’t work- the narrator’s conceptual understanding is skewed due to the time-reversal). Confusingness signifies meaninglessness, and it’s a mood- one I found deeply frustrating. Ultimately, unlike tragedy, it alienates.

Comment on Time’s Arrow by Derek Lowe

Derek Lowe — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:26:37 +0000

The consensus view (and it’s mine, too, by a mile) is that Money is Amis’s best novel. That’s a little unnerving, since it’s more than twenty years old by now.

Comment on Time’s Arrow by Jesse M.

Jesse M. — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:03:35 +0000

I haven’t read it in a while, but although the novel may be a bit “gimmicky”, I didn’t find it hard to follow what the backwards-mind was seeing vs. what was really going on…can you give an example of a part that confused you?

Comment on Time’s Arrow by alice

alice — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:10:40 +0000

Yes, of course I did

(gosh, otherwise it would have been completely impossible to understand, instead of just hard…)

Comment on Time’s Arrow by jult52

jult52 — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:53:14 +0000

I read “Time’s Arrow” about a decade ago and, while it’s not Amis’ best book (which isn’t saying much since he’s written a couple of other terrific novels), I liked it and found it an interesting and clever book.

“although it is extremely hard to understand anything in this book, which is the entire point of it.”

It’s a life story told in reverse. Did you not understand this?