More Books
Feb. 24th, 2005 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muninnhuginnWhat is it with goldfish? In the list of "lifestyle enhancements" in You Are Here, we get "screensavers (especially goldfish)". A bit dated, methinks. Goldfish are so, well, early to mid-nineties: think the Bravo ads especially the Twin Peaks one; think the credit card advertised using Billy Connolly..... That was in the days before everything--or at least Red Bull and female sanitary protection--had wings. The vagaries of advertising icons.
On with the list:
- Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
- Ulrich von Liechtenstein, The Service of Ladies
- Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
- The Lifted Veil, Women's 19th Century Stories (Folio Society)
Interesting, gothic collection. It rather highlights how the supernatural has been marginalised from mainstream fiction. These are almost without exception tales from household names, both then and now, and yet they use elements of the gothic and the supernatural in a way more likely to be nowadays marginalised to genre fiction. - Bremner, Bird, Fortune, You Are Here
Occasionally amusing, but, much like their TV programmes, mainly just depressingly enlightening. I found one bit of good news: "The WWII Debt [to the US] (totalling $4,336 trillion will finally be paid off on 31 December 2006." Do we need to start a campaign now to have the equivalent of the repayments ring-fenced for something really useful?
