Nick Hornby

[singlemalt]

so I'm reading about a boy by hornby. i'm 1/3 of the way done. what's the big deal with hornby? it's okay. but that's it. i mean, the book, so far, is kind of like chick-lit. not that there's anything wrong with chick lit, but what the hell?

anyone else have any thoughts on hornby?

[firsty]

i read a chick lit book, the sequel to that fat chick thing, that jones's diary whatever. good shittaking reading i guess.

i love that movie, "love, actually," it's kickass. i think there is a character in that for everyone to identify with, or love, or hate, or whatever. that was a very chick movie and i think i felt a little gay or something when that dude took his shirt off with the chick with the crazy brother. heh. not really. fuck YOU.

anyway, never read nick hornby. i think chuck p is bro lit, not chick lit. i think he's shallow. but hey i also love bukowski and apparently he couldnt write, according to the nytimes.

what was the question?

[singlemalt]

the only real chick-lit i read was when i was in a writing workshop and the person who was running it had some pages for us to read. don't remember what it was, but it really wasn't half-bad.

and back to the chuckster. i think i may be losing my chucky chubby! i was kind of pissed off with haunted but i still love fight club.

i think of chuck as kind of like a girlfriend who is great to screw around with and a ton of fun. but i keep wondering. . . is she the right one?

[singlemalt]

back to Hornby -- don't bother. i don't get the excitement about him. About a Boy was fairly lame. no need to read him again.

next.

[firsty]

i'm reading "magical thinking" by augusten burroughs. funny but simple. simple but funny. i think we need a word to use instead of "but" and more complex than "and" that doesnt value the latter word over the former. more of a double arrow kind of word.

[singlemalt]

maybe you could go with "in addition to" or "with equal parts of" or "plus."

or maybe just stick with "and." that word has been around for awhile.

[firsty]

conformist.

[singlemalt]

if it ain't broke. . .