This made me laugh as I am the same way with movies. i just don't have the
storage space available anymore to retain all this info. I do so love books
though and while I was shopping for a book for a friend last week I picked
up two new books by two of my faves, Tom Robbins and John Irving (Fierce
Invalids Home From Hot Climates and The Fourth Hand). Tom is especially dear
to me as all of his books have made me roar with laughter (so important to
me) I especially loved "Still Life With Woodpecker", "Another Roadside
Attraction" (where he nails the Catholic Church), and "Jitterbug Perfume".
Irvings "The World According To Garp" had me singing his praises for years
when I was in college. When they finally made it into a movie I was just
bowled over by Robin Williams as Garp and of especially John Lithgow as
Roberta Muldoon. I since have met Lithgow and spoke to him at length about
the movie and the book. It was one of the first books that I have read that
I was totally disappointed with the movie afterwards. They were equally as
good, but still different. I started the Tom Robbins book first on my recent
trip to NashVegas and I am already hooked. I plan on enjoying this book thru
this next month and hopefully it takes me thru my trip to Topsfield.
Rounding out the top five fave authors would be: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (100
Years of Solitude) , Julio Cortazar (Hopscotch), and tie between Steinbeck
and Hemmingway. I have enjoyed this thread. I also really enjoyed "The Book
of Daniel" by E.L. Doctorow and "Mosquito Coast" by Paul Theroux and "Don't
Stop The Carnival" by Herman Wouk.
Paz
on 7/24/01 5:08 PM, Catherine McKay at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> --- Mags <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Mags, who thinks the southern Ontario humidity is
>> really getting to her.
>>
>> (Catherine tell them how horribly humid and awful
>> the air is these days!!)
>>
>>>
>
> Oh, fine. I was enjoying my lurkdom - I haven't
> understood a damn thing going on around here lately,
> esp. the I-Ching stuff - so many listers seem to
> understand it, to me it's just a big qu'est-ce-que
> c'est??? The weather here HAS been pathetic and
> dismal. If it had gotten any more humid, I'm sure
> we'd all have sprouted gills. Even a few good scary
> thunderstorms (couple of people out your way killed by
> lightning, eh?) couldn't dispel it. Now, though, the
> humidity is blowing out. It is still eerily hot, (is
> it just me, or is the sun really hotter than it was
> when I was a kid?) but I think - I hope, I remain
> hopeful - once the sun goes down, it's going to cool
> right off. when in doubt, talk about the weather.
> What's it like in the rest of the world? I suppose
> for Wally it's winter!
>
> Catherine, who usually enjoys books while she's
> reading them, but then almost immediately forgets what
> they were about - I suppose I could read the same book
> over and over again and get away with that, but I don't.
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