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By way of Riemanna, here's Sandra at Tropic of Fiction, who uses her weblog to post bits from what she's reading. I always mean to do this but then I'm caught up in the book and it doesn't happen.
Lovely short excerpts, kept me reading for a long time. Made me want to read Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys again (this is one of Sandra's favorite bits, and mine, too):
"Luckily for me an absolutely superb idea for a novel soon followed--three brothers in a haunted Pennsylvania small town are born, grow up, and die...I had to much to write: too many fine and miserable buildings to construct and streets to name and clock towers to set chiming, too many characters to raise up from the dirt like flowers whose petals I peeled down to the intricate frail organs within, too many terrible genetic and fiduciary secrets to dig up and bury and dig up again, too many divorces to grant, heirs to disinherit, trysts to arrange, letters to misdirect into evil hands, innocent children to slay with rheumatic fever, women to leave unfulfilled and hopeless, men to drive to adultery and theft, fires to ignite at the hearts of ancient houses. It was about a single family and it stood, as of that morning, at two thousand six hundred and eleven pages, each of them revised and rewritten a half dozen times...I was nowhere near the end."
Because really, as odd as this sounds? It feels like this sometimes.
November 27, 2005 01:15 PM
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Chabon rocks. I don't think they could've have picked a better actor to portray Tripp in the film either. Douglas' voice is fitting.
Chabon's senetences make me bleed jealousy.
Posted by: emeraldcite at November 27, 2005 08:57 PM
It feels like that ALL the time lately!
Posted by: Alison at November 28, 2005 07:45 AM
I just reread Wonder Boys. It was every bit as good as I remembered. I've been copying out bits of it, too (into a notebook -- along with some of Straight Man), trying to figure out how they do it.
Posted by: Karen at November 28, 2005 04:22 PM