Slog - Comments on Lunch Date Redux: Playing http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lunch_date_redux_playing Last week, I reviewed the beginning of a novel called Playing, which is a debut novel by the wife of Vikram Chandra about a woman embarking on her first S&M relationship. Though I finished the book a couple days ago, it just occurred to me that I never actually wrote about how it was, in the end. I said last week that "I think I’m going to regret (reading Playing) in the morning." Boy, did I ever. The late nineties/early aughts were heavy with novels starring wealthy young white women who fled from loving relationships because they couldn't deal... Copyright 2008 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:55:59 -0800 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:49:13 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty Rope is so much better than handcuffs.

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lunch_date_redux_playing#c993353 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lunch_date_redux_playing#c993353 Books Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:05:11 -0800 Comment by Yat Csn: Dissin ya-yas not right -- that one's not even above the love thang with the fiancee it's about dysfunct. mommy in the deep south steeped in lots of cocktails and fast caddys.....goes well with Cat on a, Blanche DuB., Faulkner, Dunces, or maybe even Love Inda Ruins but is nothing like the wealthy middle aged white woman in flight to Africa or Tuscany or Umbria genre.

]]> Yat http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lunch_date_redux_playing#c993358 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lunch_date_redux_playing#c993358 Books Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:12:49 -0800 Comment by a Even if you don't like her book, you could at least have included her name, rather than just identifying as someone's wife... Things like that will drive a woman to believe that her cliched search for herself has to end back in the arms of the man who, alone, can provide her with identity.

]]> a http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lunch_date_redux_playing#c993479 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lunch_date_redux_playing#c993479 Books Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:56:00 -0800 Comment by Gloria @3: Probably his point.

]]> Gloria http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lunch_date_redux_playing#c993500 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lunch_date_redux_playing#c993500 Books Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:16:21 -0800 Comment by bagapple neighborhood names. where I spent chunk for the personalities. I don't know the boys

]]> bagapple http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lunch_date_redux_playing#c993637 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lunch_date_redux_playing#c993637 Books Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:51:35 -0800 Comment by Matthew That's funny...I spent the '90s and pre-9/11 '00s dating a lot of women who would come on all strong, spend a month or two being all lovey-dovey, and then flee. I thought it was me (and of course, it probably was) but maybe there was something in the air back then.

]]> Matthew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lunch_date_redux_playing#c993673 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lunch_date_redux_playing#c993673 Books Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:18:23 -0800 Comment by Tlazolteotl Frequently, the wealthy young white women would flee to their parents and resume a second childhood. Sometimes, they would go somewhere that wealthy young white women don’t ordinarily go (e.g. Africa).

Um. "The Sheltering Sky" Paul Bowes 1949.

]]> Tlazolteotl http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lunch_date_redux_playing#c993690 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lunch_date_redux_playing#c993690 Books Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:49:13 -0800