tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5066576700139371427.post4032678065447061606..comments2012-01-02T03:05:27.493-05:00Comments on The Modern Librarians: #30 - The Good SoldierThe Modern Librarianshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10787407632095233857noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5066576700139371427.post-85418849674366601872011-11-10T21:49:46.478-05:002011-11-10T21:49:46.478-05:00Spitz! So glad you're enjoying the ride. M'...Spitz! So glad you're enjoying the ride. M's got Finnegan's, but we're doing Ulysses together over the holidays, if you'd care to join us. I took the Ginger Man because I read somewhere that Hunter Thompson was really into it. Wikipedia described it as "the racy misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American living in Dublin." Sounds like a good time to me. <br />Michael had planned from the beginning to do a selection of books from the Reader's List, in case someone was really interested in reading reviews of those Great American Classics, Stephen King's "IT" and Battlefield Earth. I'm going to let him have all the fun to himself there....I have to go wash my hair or feed my fish or something. <br />Say hi to those handsome Van Buren Boys for us!K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09193869110536030749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5066576700139371427.post-26765976579181613082011-11-10T16:11:31.272-05:002011-11-10T16:11:31.272-05:00First, let me say (write) that I'm loving this...First, let me say (write) that I'm loving this blog and ruing the day M. and K. finally get through all 100 (should be sometime next week) and I'm forced to turn to actually reading books for my highbrow entertainment. I was reading through the Modern Library list, licking my chops in anticipation of your insight on my faves: Joyce (which lucky person gets to read Finnegan's Wake?), Vonnegut, Heller, Faulkner, and Orwell, as well as your recommendation as to whether I should actually read the stuff I've never heard of (is the cover #99 The Ginger Man just a portrait of M. stroking his ruddy beard?) Even if I haven't read the book you're reviewing and never intend to, you both write with such skill and passion that I hang on every word and eagerly await the next entry. I loved K.'s take on Faulkner and her general willingness to appreciate craftsmanship while noting one book or another doesn't quite work for her personally. It's great that you don't buy into any hype about a text but review your human experience with the book, though I do really wish to hear some fiery filleting of the Hollywood hacks trying to discredit your boy Billy Shakes. As for M., I consider this blog to be payback for the time (timeS) in college when you needed me and my car to move your thousands of books out of a dorm or into a dorm, up flights of stairs, boxes and boxes of books and trash bags full of random papers with you haggardly pulling at your hair and saying "um um um yea um Spitz did we accidentally pack Cutler in a box?" We're even now.<br /><br />P.S.: When you do finish this project, though please don't rush, I recommend you plow through the M.L.'s Reader's List of top 100. Enough Ayn Rand and Elron Hubbard to start a bonfire.Spitzhttp://www.vanburenmusic.comnoreply@blogger.com