Comments on Reading Tonight

Don't worry... I'm forcibly restraining myself from re-posting the super-awesome Professor & the Madman snippet from the OED thread.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

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.

@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.

@4: What about The Meaning of Everything? Have you read that one?

@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.

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.