Hurry up faceless, soulless online bookshop and release this sure-to-be instant classic.
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Re-read John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids. Another reason NOT to go to New Zealand.
“You do care a little for me, I know… but nothing to speak of, and you don’t love me. I was yours once till death if you’d cared to keep me, but I’m someone else’s now… and he’s mine in a way that shocks you, but why don’t you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.” ― E.M. Forster, Maurice
Less Than Zero :: Still one of my all time favourite teen comedies from the 80s. It’s SO real. It’s SO hardcore. It was sad that this was Jami Gertz’s last motion picture - I wish! And where’s Demi Moore and Rob Lowe when you need them? Some brat pack?! Thank god for James Spader.
The Wings of the Dove (1997). One of the most brilliant film adaptations of a Henry James novel. Compelling. Devastating. Intoxicating.
“I Want My MTV” book to be turned into a feature film! Yes, I will take 2 complimentary tickets thank you.
Can someone please explain to me why these pulp-fiction tomes aren’t on the prescribed reading list for EVERY human being!? It’s a Scandal! Outrageous! Unnatural! Erotic! I mean, shouldn’t everyone have to recite Ed Wood Jr’s Killer in Drag word-for-word. Or at least know what ‘The Greek Way’ means? I’m calling the PTA!
“The mirror was often used as a symbol of the vanity of woman. The moralizing, however, was mostly hypocritical. You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting Vanity, thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.” John Berger.
Song: The Velvet Underground & Nico - I’ll Be Your Mirror
Finally got my hands on Salman Rushdie’s essay on The Wizard of Oz. It’s only taken me 10 years to get around to buying it but I want to read it NOW. Hurry up online, discounted, free shipping, no extra charge for gift wrapping (even though it’s for me), scented-candle (nice touch?) bookshop that is killing shop-front, independent, mum & dad book retailers. Bastards….. what?
