acher ([info]shoshi144) wrote,
@ 2005-08-11 09:41:00
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Philos are on livejournal! Whoo!

The question now is, to comment or not to comment?

It seems sort of stalker-y, but I came about them in a fairly legit way - campus network reinstated automatic email updates and so I started playing around on said site and discovered a link on caitlin's (she posted it, I swear) but still. Online etiquette eludes me. I think I will just ask her otherwise and then all will be resolved.

(It is far more difficult than I imagined to rise above the livejournal netherworld. I will blame THAT on the fact that I WILL HAVE NO GLASSES FOR A WEEK - bah on costco - and my interim glasses afford me little to no long distance sight. hence, hovering about a computer screen. I really should write a novel, but instead I play on lj. Such is my life.)

Since I have no further depths into which to stoop, I will ask the inevitable summer question. I have nothing in the house to READ for the next two weeks, but am within walking distance of a minor public library. Any suggestions?

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[info]pallien
2005-08-11 03:24 pm UTC (link)
I can't remember if you were one of the people I've been able to discuss Nabokov with, so I am making my blanket Nabokov recommendation. Any Nabokov will do, particularly Pale Fire, as long as you have a little bit of patience with it. :)

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[info]shoshi144
2005-08-11 05:56 pm UTC (link)
I'll definitely look into it, thank you :)

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[info]mr_kenny
2005-08-11 03:52 pm UTC (link)
I too am often eluded by online etiquette. I have difficulty deciding what to do when I stumble upon somebody else's LJ, for fear of seeming stalkerish. However, what I've found to work, in general, is to friend said journals and leave a comment letting them know who you are, so they don't think some random person from LiveJournal Land is stalking them.

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[info]shoshi144
2005-08-11 05:57 pm UTC (link)
but I AM a random person from livejournal land...

I'm responding to your email, i swear

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[info]lingbo
2005-08-11 04:45 pm UTC (link)
I have two nonfiction reccomendations: Freakonomics, and anything by Malcolm Gladwell. Or google his name and read all the articles he's written for the New Yorker. He's amaaaazing.

I haven't read much fiction lately, other than stuff for class. I did really like John Cheever. I just got The Unbearable Lightness of Being on a rec from teacher man Mike, and Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block. Also a DVD of 13 going on 30, but shhh, you didn't hear that from me.

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[info]shoshi144
2005-08-11 05:59 pm UTC (link)
Groooovy. I heart the New Yorker and those that write in it muchly, and after hearing what Cheever inspired in you all I think he's definitely worth a try.

Unbearable lightness was my CTY reading, along with life of pi and it is soooo yummy. But has sex in it! Bad teacher man mike! (ha ha).

Heavy lit always needs its... balance. Thirteen going on thirty, indeed :)

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[info]heidimamee
2005-08-11 06:18 pm UTC (link)
caramelo by sandra cisneros.

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[info]dergnoam
2005-08-12 12:22 pm UTC (link)
I've been reading some joseph heller lately. it goes down well and i think you'd like him. and of course, if you haven't read catch-22 yet, you need to do that right now.

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