Comments on: Ten Things I've Got that You Haven't Got

By: mjd

mjd — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:25:12 +0000

Hahaha! Something to aspire to.

By: scott andrews

scott andrews — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:24:42 +0000

i like to think that we are a tiny new drunkass intellectual elite!

By: mjd

mjd — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:31:24 +0000

Turtle Moon was about how everybody in this Southern town went crazy on the first full moon of spring. Crazy to the effect of “I will now sleep with this ugly dude”. I felt strangely compelled by it at the time, but I can’t quite say why now…

Celestine Prophesy was kind of like Da Vinci Code in its page-turney-ness and oversimplified profundity, except it was New Age profundity rather than Western secret history profundity, and it was a lot more earnest about trying to convert you to its belief system. I think I actually bought into it for a bout a week.

And Susan Kay is indeed great.

By: mjd

mjd — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:26:23 +0000

I read Rape of the Lock too…it was the in-class warm-up, with explication by professor, in this satire class I took. Where I also read Swift, Chaucer, Ovid, probably other stuff I can’t recall. But those drunkass intellectual elite sure could get raunchy when they wanted!

By: scott andrews

scott andrews — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:13:52 +0000

very cool list. i’ve never read Faerie Queen, but back in high school they did have us read The Rape of the Lock!

By: MaggieDR

MaggieDR — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:09:19 +0000

I’ve read “Turtle Moon”, and remember liking it a lot, but that’s all I remember. I also liked “Practical Magic”, not to be confused with the sub-par movie version.

The Kay books sounds promising, I’ll have to look for it.

I’ve not read the Celestine Prophesy, but recall the period when everyone seemed to be reading it–or at least, carrying it around.