You know, I’ve seen my fair share of bad headlines — “Just Desserts” after the death of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, “Hamlets warned of Ophelia” in the wake of more recent Florida hurricanes — and while this one isn’t on that same level, it’s still pretty lame: Grimm the lights?
Month: November 2005
And just in case you didn’t have enough on your shelf, the Spam Reading Club returns again with selections from Tarzan of the Apes and The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, as well as Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Sort of like Tarazan of the Heights, which Burroughs really should have written. There’s a whole world of great literary mashups waiting to happen.
From the limited amount of spam I receive — and the limited amount of that which I actually read — the new thing seems to be combining the random-words strategy with the public-domain-literature thing. So you wind up with passages from the above books with random words that clearly don’t belong there.
It occurs to me, of course, that I’m probably putting way too much time and thought into this and should probably just go back to deleting these messages sight-unseen.
Our long national nightmare is almost over: ‘Da Vinci Code’ Losing Best-Seller Status:
After more than two years spent dominating the New York Times best-seller list, “The Da Vinci Code,” by Dan Brown, is dropping off the list, at least temporarily.
I guess at some point I may actually have to read the damn thing.
It just seems like there’s so many better things I could be doing with my time.
Anne Rice has a new book out. Let the Amazon.com backlash begin anew.
Personally, I’ve only ever read Interview with the Vampire, so I can’t in all honesty comment on any of her later books. As I think I’ve said before, Interview itself wasn’t terrible, especially if you like that sort of thing, but for just a 300-400-page book, even that was a bit of a slog.
What I find interesting is what seems to be an increasingly antagonistic relationship between Rice and her fans. Some authors adore their fans; some look upon them as a necessary evil. Rice seems to have sometimes gone out of her way to attack hers.