tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post1499372437431274962..comments2024-03-07T18:38:58.284-08:00Comments on kidchamp dot net: laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03429404210444847213noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-62491428120500529252016-06-07T23:31:57.909-07:002016-06-07T23:31:57.909-07:00I consider The Hunger Games trilogy to be a great ...I consider The Hunger Games trilogy to be a great accomplishment for Collins and a true classic for both teen and adult readers of both sexes. I'm very pleased to give it a permanent place on my-favorite-books-of-all-time shelf where, coincidentally, it will sit right alongside The Underland Chronicles.<br /><br />Very, very highly recommended.Reine Mariehttp://www.reine-marie.qc.ca/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-11723213070558159172010-11-17T14:40:07.000-08:002010-11-17T14:40:07.000-08:0001 May I say no as a non-Freedom-reader? No.
02 Ae...01 May I say no as a non-Freedom-reader? No.<br />02 Aesthetically frustrated.<br />03 Great for reading all in one go under the covers; I found the subsequent books lacking.<br />04 Ginger cookies and mouthful words.<br />05 Only Ortolan, and only in France with a napkin over my head <i>so the gods couldn't see</i>.<br />06 Pfa.Amandanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-21130599438978637952010-11-17T14:41:14.000-08:002010-11-17T14:41:14.000-08:002) a) so delighted I wrote a novel! b) exuberantly...2) a) so delighted I wrote a novel! b) exuberantly anticipatory of my small fortune!<br />4) quesadillas. no, burritos.<br />5) fo shizzle. although I suspect they would be overly bony, the pickling would probably make them less prone to dryness than, say, roast squab.Katherine Cortesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-89945705135061675282010-11-17T21:55:27.000-08:002010-11-17T21:55:27.000-08:0001: Feculent ring-salvaging and no National Book A...01: Feculent ring-salvaging and no National Book Award? (The movies have trumped F already, anyway; Mystery Team had a terrific toilet-ring-retrieval recently, and who has the audacity to challenge the citadel that is the suppository scene in Trainspotting.)<br />02: She’s promoting <i>my</i> novel? Have you <i>read</i> my novel? It’s <i>atrocious</i>.<br />04: Gonna go with krill; krill and Frank’s Red Hot.<br />0?: Ha: I saw the specter of Updike suspended above your description of Franzen’s women before you said it out loud. Nice to see a few banana peels tossed in Kakutani’s path, too. Who’s the ‘Champ <i>now</i>? Milkmaid's dumb friendnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-65737133787565176332010-11-17T23:21:57.000-08:002010-11-17T23:21:57.000-08:00where is question number 7? the one about the read...where is question number 7? the one about the reading group? i still want in on that. december perhaps?<br />furiousmusenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-42678865698697354722010-11-18T10:40:01.000-08:002010-11-18T10:40:01.000-08:0001 don't know since i haven't read freedom...01 don't know since i haven't read <i>freedom</i>, but congrats to the winner, whose small press publisher only had an initial run of 2000 copies. smallest initial print run ever for a NBA winner?<br /><br />02 extremely happy, though i'm sure the press would be tiring.<br /><br />04 fresh oysters (yes, i live in iowa).<br /><br />05 no, and this was a real moral slip-up for franzen in an otherwise decent and earnest journalistic exercise.<br /><br />also, are you sure that was <i>praise</i> from kakutani? given she didn't really like DFW's work in the first place, it's an open question. also, is there a more predictable book reviewer around than kakutani (realism good, anything experimental bad/showing off/overwritten)? though at least she's not as uptight as james wood.anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-46319296736421596652010-11-18T12:00:35.000-08:002010-11-18T12:00:35.000-08:00MDF, having just finished rabbit is rich and taken...MDF, having just finished <i>rabbit is rich </i>and taken a bite or two of <i>rabbit at rest</i> - nearing the end of the tetralogy, that is - i'm starting to feel an adversarial sort of affection for updike. it tingles.<br /><br />sara, we'll see. i'm not at all sure that i want to share the holidays with thomas pynchon.<br /><br />Guest/jacob, in the context of that review it was certainly praise. i am of course more predictable than MK is, though calling THUNDERTOME a series of reviews is deeply sketchy at best. camille paglia? i'm pretty sure she's a bot.kidchampnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-77607738780374943502010-11-20T08:44:19.000-08:002010-11-20T08:44:19.000-08:00Is the "a" in "a-plot" an ordi...Is the "a" in "a-plot" an ordinal letter or a negation?el pulpo paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-79610745663083275932010-11-20T11:26:59.000-08:002010-11-20T11:26:59.000-08:00heh. ordinal, sort of. heh. ordinal, sort of. kidchampnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-89586753827447065992010-11-21T09:19:19.000-08:002010-11-21T09:19:19.000-08:00Ok, finally finished.
1) I DK. Probably not.
2) I...Ok, finally finished. <br />1) I DK. Probably not.<br />2) I'm with Katherine on this one. Though really, read his essay in <i>How to Be Alone</i> about the whole Oprah book club experience- it's rather convincing. <br />5) No way. I was surprised by his situational ethics there. <br />6) The Corrections, no question. I really really loved (love? it's been a while) that book. Lalitha is absolutely the weak link in Freedom, which has some enjoyable moments. My reaction to the exoticized (ooh, she's <i>Indian</i>) young woman who literally begs doughy old Walter to let her give him a blow job was to look around the room to see if anyone else wanted to deconstruct the novel with me, sophomore year English class style. Also, the poo-digging scene? I love me a good poop joke, but that was just puerile - not shocking or thought-provoking. megannoreply@blogger.com