Perhaps you're right, but I have the distinct feeling that in STICKS Carroll is making a very interesting point in saying (imho) that you don't have to be a...
Dagmar Lipovics
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Jul 3, 2003 8:53 am
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Dagmar, I think we may be looking at the same glass differently. I would say that the point of MOS is that vampires really aren't so bad, they are no...
May those who love us love us, and those that don't love us, may god turn their hearts And if he doesn't turn their hearts may he turn their ankles. A quote...
I'm rereading MARRIAGE OF STICKS because of Dagmar's comments (thank you) and I started thinking, what if Hugh didn't die but simply returned to his wife....
... I read the next in the series. Actually I didn't enjoy it much - it seemed that it was a revisit of earlier ideas without some of the structure. Perhaps I...
Cola
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Jul 9, 2003 1:27 pm
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Anybody that is a clunker ain't bad in my book.... Hey just learnt my lesson so many messages ago, you don't like it I do! Nahhhhhh ;-) Understand where you...
A good writer is like a good restaurant-- you go there because you like what it serves and what it serves is usually much the same as what it served the last...
Dagmar Lipovics
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Jul 10, 2003 6:20 am
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... Yes, true. My favourite restaurant closed down, which was a shame. I agree that JC uses (at least some of) the same themes and constructs throughout the...
Cola
illusions@...
Jul 10, 2003 10:23 am
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Ah, I somewhat agree and somewhat disagree. Some writers do tell essentially the same story over and over again, just with different characters, nuances, etc....
God damnit i still can't post other peoples sayings..... Love it, hate it, indifference is worse. But why is it a problem? smiling, nice guy, blair kinda...
Anyway...given the singles bar... Why did i like the wooden sea? Given cola didn't i went back to source read 5 pages then remembered ......It's frannie ....I...
I like the WOODEN SEA because it is the happiest book (imho) that JC has written. I was never fearful for the characters...sure aliens are running the whole...
Ahhh feel chains wrapping round me! Happy is difficult till you define it! Thanks jon! I think marriage of sticks is still wonderful and happy but teeth of...
Oh forgot, a bob marley type of book? Nope, can't see this at all.... please explain? why cause reggae is the last type of music I would put to JC! Plus I'm...
I finally read the copy of REPLAY I purchased based on Michael's note here. I think it is one of the sweetest stories I have ever read and it reminded me of...
Thank you for the reminder of the novel 'Replay'. A friend told me about the book years ago and after we lost touch I forgot all about it. Happy now I'm off...
Hello, out there! I just joined this list, having recently finished WHITE APPLES, my first Carroll book. Anyone here from Western MA.? Michael Serafin,...
I'm so glad to see that I'm not the only person who has the perverse impulse to cheek, "NO!" when asked a perfectly innocuous question wherein only affirmative...
Not me! ... "Mankind must put an end to war; or war will put an end to mankind." Speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 25, 1961 John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963) ...
Where the "mission statement" of this listserv names Garcia-Marquez and Cortazar as comparable to Carroll (I've not read either of them), has Carroll ever...
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