I reed buks
Nov. 7th, 2007 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefnerIf you film it…: 21 good books that need to be great films, like now.
Just what I need, more books to add to my reading list.
Side note: Once I got to the description for A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS, I came upon an epiphany: I'm now terrified to read memoirs. I don't think I have it in me (at this point in my life, or perhaps ever) to read the celebrated works of Eggers, Sedaris, Burroughs, etc without feeling super-uncomfortable, self-conscious, and inadequate.
Maybe if I sat down and actually read them, I'd realize that comparing myself to them is like apples and oranges. I mean, I don't feel this way when I listen to Garrison Keillor or watch Spalding Gray. I guess I'm still insecure over the literary agent's claim that THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES was too similar to other memoirs (but whose, they did not specify... damn it, which authors am I too much like?!), or being frequently compared to Sedaris (we're actually different, I know we are!).
Maybe these feelings will chance once I've joined their ranks, but for now, eh, I'm gonna stick with the three dozen or so books I have to read. Up next: Alan Weisman's THE WORLD WITHOUT US, which should give some great insight into a post-zombie-apocalypse world.
By the way, what's with people trying to adapt WORLD WAR Z as a straight narrative fiction? The only way it can be done is as mockumentary! Imagine a zombie film by Ken Burns.
I rarely read webcomics, but I have now discovered the wonder and joy that is The Perry Bible Fellowship. I like to describe it as what would happen if Red Meat and Gary Larson had a child.
Just what I need, more books to add to my reading list.
Side note: Once I got to the description for A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS, I came upon an epiphany: I'm now terrified to read memoirs. I don't think I have it in me (at this point in my life, or perhaps ever) to read the celebrated works of Eggers, Sedaris, Burroughs, etc without feeling super-uncomfortable, self-conscious, and inadequate.
Maybe if I sat down and actually read them, I'd realize that comparing myself to them is like apples and oranges. I mean, I don't feel this way when I listen to Garrison Keillor or watch Spalding Gray. I guess I'm still insecure over the literary agent's claim that THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES was too similar to other memoirs (but whose, they did not specify... damn it, which authors am I too much like?!), or being frequently compared to Sedaris (we're actually different, I know we are!).
Maybe these feelings will chance once I've joined their ranks, but for now, eh, I'm gonna stick with the three dozen or so books I have to read. Up next: Alan Weisman's THE WORLD WITHOUT US, which should give some great insight into a post-zombie-apocalypse world.
By the way, what's with people trying to adapt WORLD WAR Z as a straight narrative fiction? The only way it can be done is as mockumentary! Imagine a zombie film by Ken Burns.
I rarely read webcomics, but I have now discovered the wonder and joy that is The Perry Bible Fellowship. I like to describe it as what would happen if Red Meat and Gary Larson had a child.
