Comments on: The Fates Will Find Their Way, Hannah Pittard; plus a question about collective narrators

By: I am fed up with missing white girls | Reading the End

I am fed up with missing white girls | Reading the End — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:01:50 +0000

[…] white girls. Twin Peaks is good (I have heard). The first season of Veronica Mars is superb. The Fates Will Find Their Way was unexpectedly weird and wonderful. There are many good books, shows, and movies that feature […]

By: Laurie C

Laurie C — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:00:33 +0000

In reply to Jenny. I think you're thinking of Jonathan Franzen. So many J first names!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:28:59 +0000

In reply to bookgazing. Hahaha, well, what you have said about Even the Dogs makes it sound very silly, but I also value your opinion. So, noted.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:26:36 +0000

In reply to Alice (@alice_sings). I read the first, like, third of it? And he still seemed pretty douchey and I hate hate hate reading about incest. It's boring and dreary! So I think Jeffrey Eugenides is not for me. Also, either he or Jonathan Franzen or Jonathan Lethem or Joshua Safran Foer keeps talking shit about David Foster Wallace even though that dude was his friend and is now deceased.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:24:52 +0000

In reply to litlove. I liked Then We Came to the End! It was not the best book I ever read, but it was pretty good. I love being given different narrative options! I'll add the John Fowles book to my list.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:21:27 +0000

In reply to Vasilly. You are WELCOME. :p

By: NWK (@MumsyNancy)

NWK (@MumsyNancy) — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:46:24 +0000

In reply to Jenny. I did borrow it on my Nook, and it was clever and interesting and well structured, but it left me feeling very, very depressed. Oh well.

By: When Nights Were Cold « Bride of the Book God

When Nights Were Cold « Bride of the Book God — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:09:08 +0000

[…] as long as I don’t think about it too much (and its interesting that as I was reading this Jenny posted on similar issues); and I enjoyed this novel very much, although the ending would have made more sense in a more […]

By: bookgazing

bookgazing — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:50:57 +0000

I think ‘Even the Dogs’ is first person plural – it’s narrated by what I guess I came to understand as a troupe of ghosts, that grows as more of the addicts die. I’m not making it sound appetising am I? But I loved it – McGregor’s prose is delicious. And the parts of ‘The Penelopiad’ by Margaret Atwood in the voice of the chorus are collective (the bits I enjoyed the most, as I thought the main narrative was a bit dull, although maybe deliberately so). That one I did imagine with people speaking in stereo, I suppose because that’s the way a chorus would sound on stage (I always think that sounds wonderfully creepy).

I loved Virgin Suicides too btw.

By: Alice (@alice_sings)

Alice (@alice_sings) — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:36:01 +0000

In reply to Alice (@alice_sings). JEFFREY. Shit.