Posts by Cecelia
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the 'reality' of a 'fiction' becomes the wider expression about what it says in relation to society (paraphrasing, sorry), or what those in society say in relation to 'it', and in that respect there is plenty to learn from this book/movie.
Nah, at my stage of life I don't want to read anything that is merely commercial and not enriching. Dragon Tattoo is the former and I've just given up on Maurice Gee's Access Road. Flippin' 'eck, it's the same story he's told a dozen times. The same bully figure, same anti-puritanism and same dark childhood secret.
I'm reading Giliead by Marilyn Robinson because I looked up all the Pulitzer prize winners from the last few years, wrote them down and took out the ones available. I really want to get hold of Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie (heard her on the radio) but not available in library or shop!
Yes, I learnt something from Tattoo - the Swedish setting etc but I'm going for broke - a second rate book is a second rate book. (Apart from Twilight because I was teaching teenage girls then and needed to read some YA books!)
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What about he who saw Dragon Tattoo telling us about his PhD in Sci Fi - in a nutshell.
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Read some. Yes. Written a PhD on the subject replete with exhaustive bibliography of obscure references for and against (what was the question again?) not so much.
Now that you have written this, it would be cruel to keep us in the dark. I have no objections to mansplaining and I don't think the other people here are delicate little flowers.
But what does ZOMG mean?
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Thanks BookieMonster for the link to The Millions and the spoof of The Road. (On previous page )I wasn't a fan of it and found it forced. Just goes to show authors should write about the here and now instead of fiddling around with the future. (Just kidding - sort of.)
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Be as disagreeable as you like. I'm just stirring - I have a bias against sci fi and fantasy but I have no rational basis for my arguments because since a dose of the Dune books and Asimov about 30 years ago I haven't dabbled in either genre. ( I read the Tolkien books to my children and we all enjoyed them but I dislike that they are limited to a very narrow view of good and evil.)
I'm having a reading feast at the moment and I enjoy hearing people's views.
BTW, I disliked The Handmaid's Tale, loved The Blind Assassin and quite liked Oryx and Crake. When it comes to Canadian writers however, I prefer Alice Munro. I'm raving, ignore me:)
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Wikipedia on Marg Atwood and Sci Fi. I know you discussed this upthread (a new term for me) but here is her rationale.
I'm with Atwood and her implication that her sort of dystopian/futuristic fiction is more of a comment on the human condition than regular Sci Fi books. Mind you, I enjoyed The Blind Assassin more than her 'speculative' works.
"Science fiction has monsters and spaceships; speculative fiction could really happen."
"For me, the science fiction label belongs on books with things in them that we can't yet do.... speculative fiction means a work that employs the means already to hand and that takes place on Planet Earth", and said that science fictional narratives give a writer the ability to explore themes in ways that realistic fiction cannot.[8] -
This is last decade but new to me. I've just read The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Hardt on the recommendation of my 34 year old son. I've just found out that there is a school of thought called Positive Psychology. It was a very good read but I have some reservations about some of the ideas.
H=S+C+V?!
Does anyone know about this?
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Pirophen was my first port of call for migraines in my younger days - think it had all three. Codcomol too.
I have to be careful of the non-steroid anti-inflammatories so I avoid Nurophen Plus.
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It's a headline for me. I may as well be swallowing jellybeans as take panadol without the "deine". Once more, the abuse by a small number limits the access for the majority.
My father used to swallow handfuls of 'AP Codeine' in the 50s for headaches. It's been available for yonks - why clamp down now?
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Ahhh. Murakami. I feel in love with him a few years ago when 'Kafka on the Shore' came out. I hope Dance, Dance, Dance lives up to expectations - I've read Norwegian Wood (?) and The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. He has a lovely soul, methinks.