if it's any consolation, Charlotte's poems are the worst of the bunch.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 July 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
Stein can be v funny, eg:
I liked the photographers, there is one who came in and said he was sent to do a layout of me. A layout, I said yes he said what is that I said oh he said it is four or five pictures of you doing anything. All right I said what do you want me to do. Why he said there is your airplane bag suppose you unpack it oh I said Miss Toklas always does that oh no I could not do that, well he said there is the telephone suppose you telephone well I said yes but I never do Miss Toklas always does that, well he said what can you do, well I said I can put my hat on and take my hat off and I can put my coat on and I can take it off and I like water I can drink a glass of water all right he said do that so I did that and he photographed while I did that.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 20 July 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah I read the Alice B. Toklas
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 July 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
Like Janet Malcolm's book on Stein, specifically a scene where she takes a knife to The Making of Americans
That's all I have..
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 20 July 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
ignorant of all of these :/ but if i weren't i'd probably vote the brontes
jmm otm re moby-dick
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 20 July 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
I didn't get to contribute to the Bronte poll, but Charlotte is the best Bronte and would take this. I was hoping for a Charlotte vs Dickens poll or something so I could really get into it. Emily rules and WH is a contender for best Bronte novel. But Villette is as wild as WH and possibly my favorite novel period.. and then Jane Eyre was my ultimate page turning obsession.. AND Shirley is super-underrated because people think it's about mill owners and worker uprisings when it's really about the sequences where religion and business and politics are reborn as the domains of women in passages so beautiful I'm reduced to tears.
Emily is the best poet and her student essays are better and v sharp but three could be goat novels beat one. Grouping them together prroblematic.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 20 July 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
fwiw another one i was considering was SHAKESPEARE versus EZRA POUND AND ALSO T S ELIOT
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Sunday, 20 July 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
miglior fabbro
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 July 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
Considering a few couplings too
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 21 July 2014 09:13 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 26 July 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 27 July 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
pigs
― your favourite misread ILX threads (darraghmac), Sunday, 27 July 2014 02:14 (nine years ago) link
Local Oxfam has a copy of Making of the Americans and I'm like I dunno.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 19 January 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link
It's a singular novel, but I don't think I could have finished it without being in a very committed reading group, and I say that as someone who loves a good deal of Stein's later work. Three Lives, Tender Buttons, "Lifting Belly," the autobiographies, and Stanzas in Meditation are all more immediately rewarding.
― one way street, Friday, 19 January 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
I need to find myself into one of those reading groups that read Making of the Americans. I liked Three Lives a lot at the time and Janet Malcolm's short study of Stein's work is good. I'll chase the rest of the smaller works - thanks.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 19 January 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link