All Consuming : bluishorange

A story about "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:07:04 GMT

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

by Dave Eggers

A story about "Skinny Legs and All"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:06:09 GMT

Skinny Legs and All

by Tom Robbins

the best tom robbins book there is, i think, and i should know. i’ve read them all except for villa incognito.

A story about "The American Dream and Zoo Story"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:06:09 GMT

The American Dream and Zoo Story

by Edward Albee

i liked the zoo story, but not the american dream. once i wrote a paper on the zoo story. it was a good paper, i thought.

A story about "Cat's Cradle"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:05:55 GMT

Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut

” ‘as it was supposed to happen,’ says bokonon.”

A story about "Still Life with Woodpecker"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:05:55 GMT

Still Life with Woodpecker

by Tom Robbins

still life is a good way to get into tom robbins. like skinny legs, it’s him at his weirdest, but it’s a bit shorter and doesn’t meander quite as much.

A story about "The Secert History By Donna Tartt"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:05:54 GMT

The Secert History By Donna Tartt

by Donna Tartt

i’d never heard of donna tartt before a guy i was dating told me i should read the secret history. as it turned out, donna tartt was the best thing to come out of that relationship.

A story about "The Great Gatsby"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:05:53 GMT

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

the best last line of any book i’ve ever read. “and so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

A story about "Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:05:53 GMT

Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright

by Steven Millhauser

edwin mullhouse is the best fictional biography about an eleven-year-old boy told from the point of view of another eleven-year-old boy written by a pulitzer-prize-winning author ever. i can say that with confidence because it’s probably the only one.

A story about "The Age of Innocence (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:05:52 GMT

The Age of Innocence (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

by Edith Wharton

i don’t know. it’s good, okay? i’ve never been able to finish any other edith wharton.

A story about "The Barnum Museum: Stories (American Literature Series)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:05:52 GMT

The Barnum Museum: Stories (American Literature Series)

by Steven Millhauser

every one of these short stories floors me with its originality, vividness, and believability despite the fact that most of them are about imaginary friends, mermaids, and colonel mustard getting it on with miss scarlet.

A story about "The Hours"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:05:52 GMT

The Hours

by Michael Cunningham

i’m glad it’s possible to read and enjoy the hours without having read mrs. dalloway, because the mrs. and i have never quite clicked. also, in english-major world, it is a source of pride to own a pre-movie-poster copy of a book like this (c.f. all the pretty horses).

A story about "The Last Samurai"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:05:51 GMT

The Last Samurai

by Helen Dewitt

bizarre, beautiful, unbelievable. wonderful. the amount of research dewitt must have done is staggering.

A story about "Galapagos (Delta Fiction)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:05:51 GMT

Galapagos (Delta Fiction)

by Kurt Vonnegut

“Someday my father would stop writing science fiction, and write something a whole lot of people wanted to read instead. And we would get a new house in a beautiful city, and nice clothes, and so on.”

A story about "Tuck Everlasting"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:05:49 GMT

Tuck Everlasting

by Natalie Babbitt

i loved this book in the seventh grade and i love it now. it’s really enjoyable on an adult level. however, please do not see the recent movie.

A story about "Intruder in the Dust (Vintage International)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:05:35 GMT

Intruder in the Dust (Vintage International)

by William Faulkner

this one’s on hold for a little while.

A story about "Little Kingdoms"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:05:25 GMT

Little Kingdoms

by Steven Millhauser

the first and third novellas are excellent. the third one is told through descriptions of the main character’s works of art, as if you were reading about him at an art museum. it’s a device i’ve never seen before, and i think it works well. the middle novella, however, leaves something to be desired—namely, a point.

A story about "Crimes of the Heart."

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:05:22 GMT

Crimes of the Heart.

by Beth Henley

sucks.

A story about "The Little Friend"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:04:48 GMT

The Little Friend

by Donna Tartt

the ending was completely bizarre. when i got to the last sentence, i turned the page, because that couldn’t possibly have been IT. could it? was THAT the ending? unfortunately, it was.

A story about "Me Talk Pretty One Day"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:04:47 GMT

Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris

i am seconds, minutes, hours behind the times.

A story about "The Broom of the System"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:04:47 GMT

The Broom of the System

by David Foster Wallace

judith prietht.

A story about "Infinite Jest: A Novel"

nobody@allconsuming.net (bluishorange) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:04:45 GMT

Infinite Jest: A Novel

by David Foster Wallace

my GOD, the footnotes!