Red Mosquito

Hi Reid

Welcome, lenny

Thanks

Hey epilogue question big bro...am I making this up or have you posted about a book series more involved and detailed than GoT? Search isn't helping me. This may have been at least 5 years ago.

read I, Claudius earlier this summer, just started on Claudius the God

For my mid October/Halloween read I’ve got Salem’s Lot ready to go.

But right now reading

Burn by Peter Heller

blueviper wrote:Burn by Peter Heller

sick

Reread.

Trying to crack the code on how to save my normie dumbass friends from demonic commie possession.

I finished The Goldfinch this morning and I now feel like I have goldfinch sized hole in my life. Maybe even in my chest, it's nearly a physical sensation. It was really so very good and it's been my primary downtime activity the last few weekends. I want to spend more time with Boris and Hobie and Mrs. Barbour. I don't know what I'll do with this time I now have. What am I supposed to do, start another book? It won't be as good. A sad feeling, finishing a big, great, book

I can't think of a book that failed to hit me the way it did everyone else than The Goldfinch.

Argo, I'm thrilled you loved it. Your experience seems to be the norm, so you're obviously right. But man I hated that book.

If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don't think 'oh, I love this picture because it's universal.' 'I love this painting because it speaks to all mankind.' Thats not the reason anyone loves a piece of art. It's a secret whisper from an alleyway. Pst, you. Hey kid. Yes you. An individual heart-shock.

epilogue wrote:I can't think of a book that failed to hit me the way it did everyone else than The Goldfinch.

Argo, I'm thrilled you loved it. Your experience seems to be the norm, so you're obviously right. But man I hated that book.

I didn’t care for it either.

I'm a little worried that the distraction/disaster of the 2019 film adaptation and the hubbub about the origins of The Secret History from a few years ago are going to significantly push back the date for a new Donna Tartt book. It's been over ten years...but no word

dad wrote:

epilogue wrote:I can't think of a book that failed to hit me the way it did everyone else than The Goldfinch.

Argo, I'm thrilled you loved it. Your experience seems to be the norm, so you're obviously right. But man I hated that book.

I didn’t care for it either.

The Argonaut wrote:I'm a little worried that the distraction/disaster of the 2019 film adaptation and the hubbub about the origins of The Secret History from a few years ago are going to significantly push back the date for a new Donna Tartt book. It's been over ten years...but no word

What is the "hubbub about the origins of The Secret History from a few years ago"?

epilogue wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:I'm a little worried that the distraction/disaster of the 2019 film adaptation and the hubbub about the origins of The Secret History from a few years ago are going to significantly push back the date for a new Donna Tartt book. It's been over ten years...but no word

What is the "hubbub about the origins of The Secret History from a few years ago"?

there was a podcast where they interviewed a bunch of people she went to school with in the eighties and tried to figure out real life corollaries to the fictional characters

The Argonaut wrote:

epilogue wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:I'm a little worried that the distraction/disaster of the 2019 film adaptation and the hubbub about the origins of The Secret History from a few years ago are going to significantly push back the date for a new Donna Tartt book. It's been over ten years...but no word

What is the "hubbub about the origins of The Secret History from a few years ago"?

there was a podcast where they interviewed a bunch of people she went to school with in the eighties and tried to figure out real life corollaries to the fictional characters

And this was controversial?

I mean, she's a notoriously private person so I can see how a gossipy podcast about her personal life could get in her head and distract her from her novel-writing work

The Argonaut wrote:I mean, she's a notoriously private person so I can see how a gossipy podcast about her personal life could get in her head and distract her from her novel-writing work

Oh, I see. I read your initial point as a publication/business issue, potentially.

That makes sense.