Sinister: reading list for cool kids
After sitting at the back off class and not putting my hand up for several weeks, I blotted my copybook last week with a somewhat demented post about Aqua. Many thanks to you all for drawing a veil over that. To atone I would like to add "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt to the list of essential reading matter. It's a book that proves conclusively that classical Greek scholarship is the new rock 'n' roll. I'll go back to skulking now. Bye. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
yikes, the secret history. i read that at my wits end (yes i know some of you think i'm there all the time, thank you) for a book while sitting in a crowded bus on a circuitous mountainside road in greece. that said, i thought it was terrible, though a welcome distraction from the ear-splitting greek folk music the bus driver had insisted on playing all morning. (it was also sort of a joke since it's about a group of murderous classics students - of course i am one and was stuck in a foreign country with about 15 others.....) also on books, if you liked 'sophie's world' try gaarder's next book 'the solitaire mystery.' i thought it was even better than sw. has anyone else read 'the mysteries of pittsburgh' by joseph chabon? it's not recent or anything,but someone just pointed it out to me and i'm in the middle of it now. it's beautiful, especially this passage at the end to which i am going to treat you: but i can never learn to be a world as phlox was a world, with her own flora and physics, atmosphere and birds. i am left, as coleridge was his useless dream poem, with a glittering sock and a memory...to say i loved phlox implies no need or lack of need of her, she was a world i gained and lost...i only wish i had seen her one last time. there's more but you'll have to read it yourself! (do do) laurel xxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
barsky! The Secret History is a brilliant book, any one else is wrong. Truly. I've taken a long an extensive poll. I've had gzillions of peeps see it on my web site, and say, ahoy sailor, that's a wee good book you got listed there! http://hampshire.edu/~tdzF94/ - Mods, Dick Van Dyke, Palace, and all that guff...it's the Pot O' Curry/ Mods 'r' US. "The day didn't go too well. Too many chocolates and cigarettes, I kept thinking of you and almost walking into lampposts." Pulp "and the times that we all hoped would last, like a train they have gone by so fast and though we stood together on the edge of the platform, we were not moved by them" On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Laurel Girvan wrote:
yikes, the secret history. i read that at my wits end (yes i know some of you think i'm there all the time, thank you) for a book while sitting in a crowded bus on a circuitous mountainside road in greece. that said, i thought it was terrible, though a welcome distraction from the ear-splitting greek folk music the bus driver had insisted on playing all morning. (it was also sort of a joke since it's about a group of murderous classics students - of course i am one and was stuck in a foreign country with about 15 others.....)
also on books, if you liked 'sophie's world' try gaarder's next book 'the solitaire mystery.' i thought it was even better than sw. has anyone else read 'the mysteries of pittsburgh' by joseph chabon? it's not recent or anything,but someone just pointed it out to me and i'm in the middle of it now. it's beautiful, especially this passage at the end to which i am going to treat you:
but i can never learn to be a world as phlox was a world, with her own flora and physics, atmosphere and birds. i am left, as coleridge was his useless dream poem, with a glittering sock and a memory...to say i loved phlox implies no need or lack of need of her, she was a world i gained and lost...i only wish i had seen her one last time.
there's more but you'll have to read it yourself! (do do)
laurel xxxx
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