Morgan's blog on November 03, 2008

Good luck and best wishes.

Morgan's blog on October 30, 2008

If it's any encouragement, I didn't get any calls back after putting in with all the...

NoPantsDave's blog on October 31, 2008

Yeah, I'm a late-comer to Bellow in a big way. I read Seize the Day years ago, but...

Morgan's blog on October 30, 2008

Thanks for the solidarity; really, it helps. May your own version of suck come to...

Morgan's blog on September 04, 2008

The emotional obscurantism of Neutral Milk Hotel's oeuvre does provide it with a unique...

Morgan's blog on September 04, 2008

Yes, it's hard to understand how an album that seems equally obsessed with the tragic...

Morgan's blog on September 04, 2008

I just gave that album a spin the day before yesterday. Jeff Mangum really soothes...

NoPantsDave's blog on August 04, 2008

I haven't read anything more substantial than a New Yorker article for about five...

Morgan's blog on July 20, 2008

I admire your ability to read and plan under such circumstances. I would be rubbish...

Morgan's blog on July 12, 2008

Avoiding the sadness and facing it are both necessary I think. Eventually everyone...

NoPantsDave's blog on July 10, 2008

Yes, I do still exist, just barely. I don't get 'round here so much as I used to.

Morgan's blog on June 26, 2008

I'm so sorry. I wish there were a simple English expression that better conveyed...

NoPantsDave's blog on March 22, 2008

Re: The King of Cornwall King Mark is kind of a douche, yeah, but he's never really...

Morgan's blog on March 21, 2008

Congratulations on the impending healthcare! I remember having it, and it was pretty...

NoPantsDave's blog on March 10, 2008

Malory: *spoilers* Also, congrats on finding an edition of Tom Jones at your used...

NoPantsDave's blog on March 08, 2008

Suggestions on an edition of Piers Plowman: *spoilers* David Copperfield is a particular...

NoPantsDave's blog on March 08, 2008

Literary Ramblings: *spoilers* And it's not that hard to eat spam and ramen as long...

NoPantsDave's blog on March 08, 2008

Re: Dickens If you haven't read it, I'd point to Bleak House. It is manifestly...

NoPantsDave's blog on March 01, 2008

This is long, and so spoilered. Sorry if it seems scattered or punchy: it's late,...

Tangus's blog on March 05, 2008

It is a fact universally acknowledged that kitten pictures are awesome; still, the...

Ulysses

I don't have even the slightest problem with your opinion of Joyce or your objection...

Marlowe's blog on February 13, 2008

Happy Birthday! I hope there will be cake.

Ulysses

I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here. If the standard for appreciating...

Morgan's blog on February 28, 2008

If you've not read him before, I don't know if you'd like Verne or not. For me personally...

NoPantsDave's blog on February 27, 2008

That Anna Karenina plan sounds A-OK to me. I find beginning a long novel very relaxing...

Morgan's blog on February 28, 2008

Gutenberg, Google Books, etc. never worked too well for me. I find it very difficult...

NoPantsDave's blog on February 27, 2008

I, too, was signed up for the Subject Test some years ago. The good people at ETS...

Morgan's blog on February 26, 2008

Sorry about that. I used to have a similar sort of job to yours, based on your description...

NoPantsDave's blog on February 25, 2008

It's the Subject Test in English Literature. I took the general GRE in my final year...

Books ruined by movies

I've seen those movies at least ten times each; and, unless I'm experiencing early...

NoPantsDave's blog on February 22, 2008

Yeah, I try not to condescend, but outside of the occasional genre outing (I cut my...

Used Book Shops

I was probably most surprised and pleased by a like-new hardcover edition of Pope's...

5 Fav Authors

Any reason for reading McCarthy is a good reason. No Country is actually one of his...

Books ruined by movies

That was fucking awful. When the made-for-TV miniseries trumps a David Lynch film,...

NoPantsDave's blog on February 22, 2008

If you like Swift and Voltaire, then Fielding is your man in the English 18th century.

Marlowe's blog on February 13, 2008

I'm trying to get into the English Lit. program because I am awesome and totally want...

NoPantsDave's blog on February 15, 2008

Sorry, I totally didn't notice your comment until now. I must have added a blog soon...

Marlowe's blog on February 13, 2008

All right, thanks for the explanation. I was just curious. If you re-made it, I'd...

Siv's blog on February 14, 2008

That was moving and personally helpful. That's surely not why you wrote it -- but...

Marlowe's blog on February 13, 2008

Sorry to be a bother, but I kind of fell off the site for a while, and I was wondering...