tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post4655455437509307665..comments2023-12-26T23:07:08.005-08:00Comments on TOMORROWVILLE: What Book Are You?David Isaakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928598446742324391noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-4576234799611187792007-10-06T01:30:00.000-07:002007-10-06T01:30:00.000-07:00Hi, JakeOh, Lolita is a real treat (as is the movi...Hi, Jake<BR/><BR/>Oh, Lolita is a real treat (as is the movie). Just read the first page. Heck, the first few lines.<BR/><BR/>The narrator, Humbert Humbert, is arrogant, self-deceving, conniving, pompous, and, hey, a pedophile thrown in to the bargain. How can we follow this creep through an entire book? <BR/><BR/>Voice, that's how. Oh what a voice. Even when he makes your skin crawl, you can't help but read just a bit more...<BR/><BR/>It's funny that this novel has been condemned as promoting pedophila, or winked at as having an arousing nature. I can't think of a surer antidote. The cumulative effect is not so much horrific as tremendously depressing, and it is the surest anti-erection medication I can imagine. HUmbert: the anti-Viagra.David Isaakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04928598446742324391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-50441806381552652262007-10-05T14:53:00.000-07:002007-10-05T14:53:00.000-07:00Well, it might help if I actually read those books...Well, it might help if I actually read those books. I have them all, but haven't got round to reading them yet... not even Lolita.Jake Jessonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06834903087805267419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-83258606852023335872007-10-02T09:17:00.000-07:002007-10-02T09:17:00.000-07:00Hey, Jake--Well, the hot/cold question leads to Lo...Hey, Jake--<BR/><BR/>Well, the hot/cold question leads to Lolita (you have to say "hot"), but you must have taken a fase turn in one of the few questions afterwards.<BR/><BR/>Although you sort of strike me as a possible Marquez novel. Often you seem quite feasible, and then a moment later you seem quite improbable. Magic Realism at work in the real world.David Isaakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04928598446742324391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-28789042619004923832007-10-02T02:23:00.000-07:002007-10-02T02:23:00.000-07:00I got this!"You're One Hundred Years of Solitude!b...I got this!<BR/><BR/>"You're One Hundred Years of Solitude!<BR/>by Gabriel Garcia Marquez<BR/>Lonely and struggling, you've been around for a very long time. Conflict has filled most of your life and torn apart nearly everyone you know. Yet there is something majestic and even epic about your presence in the world. You love life all the more for having seen its decimation. After all, it takes a village."<BR/><BR/>Then I thought "I, er, really?" retook the test (easily done, considering several of my answers were determined by coin toss - I mean, seriously, hot or cold climate? why can't you like both? I) and got Owen Meany. At that point, I called shenanigans.<BR/><BR/>Okay, I confess. I just really wanted "Lolita".Jake Jessonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06834903087805267419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-38615256656954487522007-10-01T00:30:00.000-07:002007-10-01T00:30:00.000-07:00What a depraved and immoral world we live in...What a depraved and immoral world we live in...Charles Lamberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18074227813367594283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-1277953730792543092007-09-29T13:22:00.000-07:002007-09-29T13:22:00.000-07:00Charles: "Don't get too excited about Pamela being...Charles: "Don't get too excited about Pamela being Lolita. So am I!"<BR/><BR/>So, as it turns out, is one of my sisters. It's beginning to look as if the Lolitas are in the majority.David Isaakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04928598446742324391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-1889703173883566562007-09-29T11:05:00.000-07:002007-09-29T11:05:00.000-07:00Don't get too excited about Pamela being Lolita. S...Don't get too excited about Pamela being Lolita. So am I!Charles Lamberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18074227813367594283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-4506443836985076392007-09-29T09:52:00.000-07:002007-09-29T09:52:00.000-07:00Hi Tim--Now the important question is--how close d...Hi Tim--<BR/><BR/>Now the important question is--how close do you live to a zoo?David Isaakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04928598446742324391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-37725737383545417042007-09-29T09:51:00.000-07:002007-09-29T09:51:00.000-07:00Hi Aliya--Well, my faith in this test is severely ...Hi Aliya--<BR/><BR/>Well, my faith in this test is severely undermined. Everyone knows you're Frank Herbert's novel <I>Dune</I>, or possibly <I>Dune Messiah</I>.David Isaakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04928598446742324391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-15222224063052774752007-09-29T01:42:00.000-07:002007-09-29T01:42:00.000-07:00And I, it seems, am The Lion, The Witch and the Wa...And I, it seems, am The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (that's what you get for ticking "yes" to the "Are you a child at heart?" question).<BR/><BR/>Ah well, right genre, at least. And it has some good advice I hadn't thought of, so it's not time wasted: "when in doubt, put your trust in zoo animals".Tim Strettonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08598897603628943741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-70506642029180285002007-09-28T23:32:00.000-07:002007-09-28T23:32:00.000-07:00I'm Waiting for Godot. 'Many people think you're e...I'm Waiting for Godot. <BR/><BR/>'Many people think you're extremely dull, but you're just trying to patient. Really patient. Patient to the point of absurdity, quite frankly. Whatever you're waiting for isn't going to just come along, so you can stop waiting. I promise. Move on with your life.' <BR/><BR/>I think I'm the first person to have been traumatised by an online test.<BR/><BR/>AliyaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-31048935960538304712007-09-28T13:31:00.000-07:002007-09-28T13:31:00.000-07:00Hey, c'mon, Sam--rejection's half the fun, right?A...Hey, c'mon, Sam--rejection's half the fun, right?<BR/><BR/>And even if you haven't submitted so much as a short story, though, you can still be a book! Just go to http://bluepyramid.org/ia/bquiz.htm<BR/><BR/>and answer six little questions...<BR/><BR/>(The gods don't need money? Huh. I been taken. I should have asked to be an agent for JK Rowling rather than higher powers.)David Isaakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04928598446742324391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-5525676578162176622007-09-28T12:37:00.000-07:002007-09-28T12:37:00.000-07:00*raises hand* I'm a slacker! I haven't even submit...*raises hand* I'm a slacker! I haven't even submitted one shortstory for publication, yet!<BR/><BR/>BTW, gods don't need money... 15% of nothing is still nothing. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com