Slog - Comments on Reading Tonight http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_69 Whereas yesterday was totally packed with thrilling readings choices, tonight has a couple of reading choices that are not so hot, with a couple gems. And a poetry slam. Jane Porter is at the University Book Store with Mrs. Perfect. Which is a novel about a woman who "gets jealous when her arch rival is named Head Room Mom" at her daughter's school. I will speak of this book no more. "Fly-fishing's foremost scribe" is at Third Place Books. That's enough of that one, too, unless you're into fly-fishing, in which case: get to it. At the Seattle Public... Copyright 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:14:23 -0800 Wed, 14 May 2008 15:05:28 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by leek Don't worry... I'm forcibly restraining myself from re-posting the super-awesome Professor & the Madman snippet from the OED thread.

]]> leek http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_69#c1024164 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_69#c1024164 Books Wed, 14 May 2008 10:41:49 -0800 Comment by danielbennetkieneker I kind of like the HOT EXOTIC CAKE ON THE COVER!!!!


and the fact that it fits my favorite "Payback" theme of Beck Hansen

DON"T BE AFRAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> danielbennetkieneker http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_69#c1024223 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_69#c1024223 Books Wed, 14 May 2008 11:15:51 -0800 Comment by David B. You should double-check the poetry slam at ToST. I went there a couple of weeks ago, and there was like one poet in the house at 8:30! The show had not started, and everyone was getting bored and irritable. I'm not sure it's a viable event, sadly.

]]> David B. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_69#c1024237 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_69#c1024237 Books Wed, 14 May 2008 11:20:22 -0800 Comment by PopTart I am suitably chastised for liking "The Professor and the Madman". And "Sex and Bacon". And for not giving "All the Sad Young Literary Men" a chance. I'm rapidly developing a literary inferiority complex. Good thing I wasn't an English maj...oh shit, I was.

]]> PopTart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_69#c1024270 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_69#c1024270 Books Wed, 14 May 2008 11:43:39 -0800 Comment by Paul Constant @4: I make no judgments of readers. And I starred the Winchester reading, so I obviously think there's something worth reading there. I just thought he made the story a little dull, considering the source material.

]]> Paul Constant http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_69#c1024290 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_69#c1024290 Books Wed, 14 May 2008 11:56:29 -0800 Comment by Greg @4: What about The Meaning of Everything? Have you read that one?

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_69#c1024303 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_69#c1024303 Books Wed, 14 May 2008 12:02:59 -0800 Comment by PopTart @6 I have not read it, but it sounds like I'd like it. Unfortunately my queue is overflowing right now so I probably won't get to it for a while.

@5 Well, I'm pretty much open to reading anything, except paranormal urban fantasy romance novels, those drive me nuts. Sadly my voracious appetite for books is greatly at odds with my need to actually get anything done so I find I'm only able to devour half the books I want to.

When I got my library card at age 5 I vowed to read everything in the Cherry Creek branch of the Denver Public Library. Imagine my despair when I realized new books were constantly being added and that I would never be able to read them all.

]]> PopTart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_69#c1024451 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_69#c1024451 Books Wed, 14 May 2008 13:12:31 -0800 Comment by leek I'm one of the trashiest readers you'll find, too, so don't take my amusement at that passage as dissing your taste! As you said, it was just the purplest of purple prose I'd ever seen in a non-fiction book.


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