My homepage has been updated with another chapter of my serialized book-in-search-of-a-publisher, THE TIME IDIOT.
Choice quote from Chapter 8:
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"Show me how to open the pod, Prescott. I'm going in first. Use your, what's it called, I-Pod."
"Right. The iPod controls the time pod."
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The guilty pleasure in reading (and writing) THE TIME IDIOT is simply this: to see just how far the protagonist will go to dig himself deeper into trouble, when any normal person would give up.
So how far down does he go?
You'll have to read it to find out.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
"Fired From The Canon": Some Finally Had The Guts To Say They Didn't Like ON THE ROAD
"Fired From the Canon" is fun reading because it describes and criticizes the flawed writing in novels which have been "canonized" as Great Literature.
I mean, it is perfectly reasonable to be bored by a "classic" and point out precisely why it bores you. There are no holy novels. Not every book Charles Dickens wrote was great.
Choice quote:
Magical realism wasn’t much of a trick to begin with – Gabriel García Márquez riding round in circles on a smallish tricycle, cigarillo clamped between teeth, occasionally raising his panama for people to throw coins – and is now thoroughly clapped out. Also, people who like it seem to have little or no sense of humor. No one knows why, but it’s true. Instead it inspires a sort of insufferably pious stupefaction.
Read the rest.
I mean, it is perfectly reasonable to be bored by a "classic" and point out precisely why it bores you. There are no holy novels. Not every book Charles Dickens wrote was great.
Choice quote:
Magical realism wasn’t much of a trick to begin with – Gabriel García Márquez riding round in circles on a smallish tricycle, cigarillo clamped between teeth, occasionally raising his panama for people to throw coins – and is now thoroughly clapped out. Also, people who like it seem to have little or no sense of humor. No one knows why, but it’s true. Instead it inspires a sort of insufferably pious stupefaction.
Read the rest.
Thursday, July 09, 2009
THE TIME IDIOT, Chapter 7
In the serialized novel THE TIME IDIOT, we have now come to Chapter 7, in which President Prescott Walker (r) continues to mess up history.
Choice Quote:
Choice Quote:
"Hey, that's my Dad!" said Prescott and pointed at one of the photographs. "He looks just the same! But who's this woman he's married to? That's not Mom!"
Moh studied the photos and then Prescott's face. He frowned. "I admit there's a distinct likeness between Morgan Walker and this man. If the elder Walker had fathered Prescott with some other woman..."
"Don't you talk that way about my parents," Prescott told him.
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