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Jan. 24th, 2004 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
electriclandOkey. I'm back. Yay for half an hour of sobering-up time! What did I say before?
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Wow, that was so comprehensive I'm not really sure I can top it. < /irony > Time to go home, methinks.
I'll check back with y'all regarding the boys, sweet creatures that they are.
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wanderingaengus, reviews on Shopgirl were mixed. Very. Maria and Marisa liked it in an inoffensive sort of way (partly because it was short, I think). Paul opened with "I thought it was absolute crap" but softened over the course of the evening to "I didn't absolutely hate it." I only got halfway through so didn't feel fully qualified to comment.
I am realizing why the omniscient narrator is used sparingly in fiction: he/she is really, really tiresome.
I had no particular feeling for any of the characters. This is a defect for me, but doesn't seem to be a drawback for everyone.
Marisa found the two-way conversations, in which Mr. Ray Porter says one thing and Mirabelle understands another, illuminating. She demanded that her husband explain them. I found them condescending ("and she thinks this, but he actually means that, and a lot of people would believe this"). Paul found them pretty realistic, in terms of the relationship.
We all found it fairly slight. It lacked substance. Again, some liked it for this reason. I am witholding judgment until I finish it.
It was my turn to pick a book, and I hadn't had time to prepare, so I'm decreeing that all shall read Wyrd Sisters. And why not, after all?
*checks*
Wow, that was so comprehensive I'm not really sure I can top it. < /irony > Time to go home, methinks.
I'll check back with y'all regarding the boys, sweet creatures that they are.
wanderingaengus, reviews on Shopgirl were mixed. Very. Maria and Marisa liked it in an inoffensive sort of way (partly because it was short, I think). Paul opened with "I thought it was absolute crap" but softened over the course of the evening to "I didn't absolutely hate it." I only got halfway through so didn't feel fully qualified to comment.I am realizing why the omniscient narrator is used sparingly in fiction: he/she is really, really tiresome.
I had no particular feeling for any of the characters. This is a defect for me, but doesn't seem to be a drawback for everyone.
Marisa found the two-way conversations, in which Mr. Ray Porter says one thing and Mirabelle understands another, illuminating. She demanded that her husband explain them. I found them condescending ("and she thinks this, but he actually means that, and a lot of people would believe this"). Paul found them pretty realistic, in terms of the relationship.
We all found it fairly slight. It lacked substance. Again, some liked it for this reason. I am witholding judgment until I finish it.
It was my turn to pick a book, and I hadn't had time to prepare, so I'm decreeing that all shall read Wyrd Sisters. And why not, after all?
