Posted on 12/14/2004 5:14:03 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
December 14, 2004 -- LONDON — Writer Tom Wolfe won one of the world's most dreaded literary accolades yesterday — the British prize for bad sex in fiction. Wolfe won it for a couple of purple passages from his latest novel, "I am Charlotte Simmons," a tale of campus life at a fictional Southern university.
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And "A Man In Full" nailed it too.
Thanks ... I'm enjoying the mixed review on the this book! I almost picked it up at the library on Saturday, but decided on "Born Fighting" instead.
Wow, that was garbled! "I'm enjoying the mixed reviews on this book," I meant.
Was it really necessary to bring up MoDo in a thread discussing sex?
Hey, at least he didn't bring up Molly Ivins!
Too funny!
"The dialogue is awful, and the collegiate "patois" (Wolfe's affected term) is stilted and unbelievable."
The dialogue is pretty realistic, IMO. The way many kids actually do "express" themselves these days.
once again, just my opinion
I do. They are your champions, in the old sense that they represent and stand in for your group. Their victories symbolically reflect the superiority of your group, and even when they lose, they "fight the good fight", from your perspective. Philosophically, they are your surrogates of the good and the right, against the evil and the wrong. Your support is a form of hero worship.
Furthermore, sports seems to be the last facet of our society in which everyone agrees to honor achievement. We think fondly of Joe Dimaggio and Michael Jordan and Barry Sanders because of the things they were able to do on the field, not because they tried hard, or had the right skin color, or got lucky, or knew the right people. When teams win championships, it's because they're great at what they do.
Hurray! Shanna Rocks! And Ruark can rock my world whenever he wants to, LOL! I think I liked that book so much because I read it at a time when I was starting to understand my own power over guys...you know, back when I was a sexy seventeen year old former heiress swindled out of her fortune and knew I'd have to marry for money and power and not love to regain all I had lost. *Rolleyes*
Ah, youth! It's wasted on the young, LOL!
AMEN!
"Her Breasts were like the melons in the produce section of Safeway at 2.99 per pound, but not as mishaped, and without the fruit flies..."
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was my bible as a teen. Funny so many were non-fiction, they totally read like fiction.
I dunno...I'm turned on by the feel of an otorhinolaryngological cavern...I think.
I was thinking of a Coach K too..... Bobby Knight.
A friend talked me into reading one of his novels. I thought it was the worst writing I'd ever read. I don't know what anyone sees in his work besides a bunch of examples of what not to do.
Wolfe had a collection of essays and a couple short stories - one of which was a chapter that was dropped from the published edition of A MAN IN FULL - out a couple of years ago. It was very good. Many of the subjects he touched on there turn up in CHARLOTTE SIMMONS: the soul versus neuroscience, the mainstreaming of homosexuality, the situation on our campuses, etc. I'm sorry I cannot remember the name of it.
And RADICAL CHIC .....
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