Patrick’s Comments (group member since Mar 09, 2009)

Patrick’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

Yeah...I have been seeing that book bandiad (sp?) about here. Will definetely check it out.

Yeah...his inspired me to change my approach in doing a book trailer. You should buy it. The whole thing is funny from beginning to end.

I also did a review if you want to know more. I have never laughed so hard for a book that was placed in the business section.

I also discovered some new things about the advertising business that like everything else, it is not just Madison Avenue folks that are coming up with concepts, it seems like viewers, especially You tube viewers decide whatever to let the ad live or kill it.

If you want, again, check out my review. I tried to make it as funny as the book itself. It is a damn good review!

I remember that my literature teacher could not get over how Michael Fuery, the boy who DIED FOR LOVE visited the wife and stood outside in the rain while suffering from puenomina. (I could be wrong but I think umbrallas were already invented during that time period.) And I think it is far more bitter and praiseworthy to live for love even if it is less glorious and less dramatic. I really sympathize with Gabriel and think he cried for a different reason than what James Joyce might intend or what the readers might think he intends.

If James Joyce had visited George Bailey at the bridge, I dare say that he might have kicked him in the ass into the frozen water in the beginning of 'It's A Wonderful Life.' to make the rest of the story darker and have more depth.

I might be getting cranky in my middle age but life is hard enough without people who are lauded as glorious for dying before their times. No wonder the living envies the dead. 'Pity the living, envy is for the dead.' was what Mark Twain said and I do find that more and more true.

I do love that story but started to find the characters a bit wearisome.

I look forward to reading your work, Shel, and I know it would be well written and in good hands with Alex's help.

Ha! I know one young man who is trying to find a home among the internet campfire of Hard Core Chicks who wishes Virgos are remote and quiet...period. Happy birthday Hugh and Brian. Hope many more to come!

Yeah...That's what I learn in class room management, the inquiry method. And all along I thought that classroom management means potiental teachers have to learn to make the "bull horns" with our hands and grimly said, "When you mess with the bull, you get the horns." to students who are a pain in our asses.

Yeah, I still think it is important to read from printed books because in the digital age, text could easily be changed and people would read them and accept them as facts. Someday, terrorists or any enemies would be able to convince us that Osama Bin Laden killed everyone in the World Trade Center in 2001 then became the president of the United States in 2008...

But that god damn bird keeps making fun of me! Just let me wring its neck and show all other stupid birds not to laugh at me.

You should check out Inner Workings run by Shel, Bonita, Ester and Margaret, They got some good stuff in poetry,,,

It's nice to see book reviewers get reviewed themselves. Maybe in the next century, we will have books review reviewers' reviews reviewers' reviews reviewers' reviews,

I after reading Cormac Mcarthy do like his prose but to be honest, liking or disliking a writer's style is subjective, (Along with the pure hatred that I have for Kanye West.) James Patterson write more concisely and clearly but his books are very light in thought and actual story, and I do dole out an equal amount of hatred for that guy.

I do take some comfort in Mcarthy padding his prose by repeating tortilla because I did that with my first novel (mine was wept and door) and now feel better that I am in the company of giants who also (are perchieved to) have screwed up once in a while. I never noticed Cormac repeating things and as a reader I sometimes lose track of the writing because I get lost in the story.

I think it can work both ways, the thinned out writing or bland writing but precise writing being overlooked in the name of the story or the clumsy wordy writing being overlooked in the name of the story. Annnd Kayne West also have done written a book himself!

Can pop culture be referred as ancient history if you were writing about a futuristic or current society or would that writer be a douchebag and is only showing off? I do recall Gravity's Rainbow using a comic as a reference: 'He was the Batman to his Robin.'

Maybe if 'Mr. Roberto' was used as a nursey rhyme in some character's memory of childhood? Would that be cool with the hardcore readers among us?

What's the name of that book?

Yeah, Stephen King called him a galloping racist which put a very funny picture in my head. But that is not to decry his talent and brillance, if ignorant about minority groups. I love his Shadow Over Innsmouth, and the nasty rumors of interbreeding, and sacrifice of children to them. I don't know which is more evil, the various sea monsters or the over compliance of townpeople at Innsmouth.

I never thought he would go from Gravity's Rainbow to doing something like a John Macdonald novel.

Adrian wrote: "

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

Supposedly this is nonfiction, but I suspect the author is a lying old bitch. Not to be confused with the classic Squeaky: ..."

Awright you talked me into it!...I am nominating Squeaky: The Squirrel Who Told Me to Touch Myself for this September read.

As Jon Evison is obsessed with western novels while working on his own, so am I obsessed with talking animals who help regular people get into touch with their sexuality since I am still working on a 700 page novel, Jane Livington Seagull, the Lesbian Seagull that used to be John Livington Seagull.

Thanks for the report. Next year, I will teach you sign language for COLD BEER GIVE ME, BOOKS GIVE ME,FOOD GIVE ME, HAVE MY PENIS TESTICLES WITHER IN COLD COLD WATER?...NO THANKS. PING PONG WANT PLAY?

If you are going to throw them in the hat, put down Let the Right In on about twenty to thirty papers for me. :)

John Ajvide Lindqvists's Let the Right One In

I do like his first work and his drawing of the stapler was truely magnificent, but I think the beginning was bloated with details of his mother dying, but the ending was kind of compressed, as if he was rushing through to finish the book. I think his novel needs a bit of airing out. Perhaps extend the second part of his work, or thin out the first part of his novel.

Yes, good job with the beer, Jon a man of many talents.