ur doin it wrong

[ironymaiden]

i would present this without comment, but i want to make sure that everyone knows that i had to choke back gales of laughter when Pride and Prejudice was listed as "rife with action".

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[aprivatefox.livejournal.com]

I hit that article through here, which does rather more commenting on it. Much interesting reading, though.

[buhrger]

I hit that article through here
[clicks]
I want to see the bookstore shelves in this alternate world, the one in which The Waste Land and Ulysses had this titanic influence on what got published, filling the catalogs of Doubleday and Harper & Row with brilliantly hermetic stream-of-consciousness narratives and irregular verse.
so do i!

[pedantka.livejournal.com]

Good grief, there are things in there with capital letters at the beginning and periods at the end that aren't even proper sentences!

[mrdorbin.livejournal.com]

Maybe someone switched his copy out for the zombie version when he wasn't looking.

I don't get it

[andrew-the-oga.livejournal.com]

I'm really grabbed by his statement, [w]e just haven't noticed it because we're looking in the wrong aisle.

[mimerki.livejournal.com]

I, who love P&P, will laugh for you. Hahahaha!

In P&P's defense, compared with Joyce? Hey, actions take place on almost every page!

[raevnos.livejournal.com]

I really should read that some day.

[raevnos.livejournal.com]

Also, I have to laugh at how the author of that article seems to think that 'literary' genre fiction is a recent development.

[e-bourne.livejournal.com]

To borrow from Charlie Brown, Oh good grief.