This Place Is Almost As Dead As I Love Film

Or reading.

One would hope.

no one reads anymore.

That's a very defeatist sentence to write.

In some ways could be liberating.

it's even more defeatist given that he'd presumably not expect anybody to read it.

Could you all keep it down in here? I'm just to the good part.

I've been coping with computer problems, and so have not been able to get onlione for several days. This should resolve shortly.

May I blame my keyboard for that typo?

sergio onlione

Someone ask something about children's books, that's the only reason I check ILB. :)

Novels have been dead even longer than cinema! Has. Been.

I Love Games (the videogame board) is a bit livelier. That's the way the culture's heading, I guess.

As if there's only one culture.

Good point - the book culture will still survive - it just is shriveling a bit.

Almost as funny too.

I read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Thursday night...I wrote a small piece about how much I loved the book. Then I had to annotate One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I hate One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Annotate?

i had a lot more time to read when i started this board. and i had no job. and i had no cable. and it was winter. and i lived on an island. wait, i still live on an island. but i have a job. and two small children instead of one. and cable. and it's all i can do just to get all my writing work done every month. and i don't even write that much every month! did i mention i'm getting dumber too? i have a book idea i want to get started on too. like that will happen anytime soon. and we only recently moved into our new house and that has been a lot of work. but i have my own office now! and it's finally set up how i want it. i have a room of one's own! and plenty of excuses to fill it with.

Am reading as much as before, and keep on checking here, too. It's just that with this board the problem is mostly that someone starts up a topic, 2 other people respond, it dies. Or else the 'What are you reading...' topics ends up just being a list. There aren't enough of us for any one book to trigger much of a discussion, it seems.

in the beginning i tried to start lots of generic/universal threads to get balls rolling. and they could be fun. the original poetry threads were great. stuff like the young adult lit thread. i dunno, there are just less people now. maybe more will show up! this will be here if they do.

I check this board out of all proportion to its activity. I don't post much, myself. Searching recently for Edmund Wilson, I came across the creative writing as an industry thread. That was a good one. There is no thread dedicated to Edmund Wilson.

Annotate?

Yeah, as in find (supposedly interesting) things to point out about each page...metaphors, ___ diction, well-crafted lines, etc.

It's a fun way to drain all joy from reading. Go high school!

Edmund Wilson! I read Memoirs of Hecate County recently. Highly recommend it - esp. "The Princess with The Golden Hair".

Is 'Hecate Country' short stories?

i had a lot more time to read when i started this board. and i had no job. and i had no cable. and it was winter. and i lived on an island. wait, i still live on an island. but i have a job. and two small children instead of one. and cable.
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Ah, Skot! Ah, I Love Books!

Is 'Hecate Country' short stories?

Yes, though "Princess" is long enough to be a novella.

EACH page? I mean, I love annotating things, but as a compulsory assignment, to annotate an entire book? In high school? Maybe doing a really close annotated reading of, like, "Hills Like White Elephants" would be a good task, but a whole novel?

You guys should seek out the Mad Magazine parody, "One Cuckoo Flew Over The Rest."

My situation is somewhat similar to Skot's, but a longer commute has given me a little more time to read.

I'm also reading <i>Hecate</i> (by way of Exley). I heartily second the recommendation. "Princess" is a treasure.

I would call the book linked short stories. Several of which are 50+ pages, and yeah, "Princess" is a long novella that could stand on its own. The whole seems very organic.

I'm just afraid to contribute because I ain't read nothing like in a long time.

Do you live on an island, Matt?