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« Reply #30 on: July 14, 2019, 11:49:07 AM »

WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE by SHIRLEY JACKSON... I have not seen any film.  I read a few things by SHIRLEY JACKSON including The Haunting of Hill House (which might be considered her masterpiece) and if you dig her style, CASTLE is her best.  




Shirley Jackson is like Poe or Lovecraft. It's more mood. Hard to capture on film.
Myself- I love Shirley. Her short stories (i.e. A Day With Peanuts) are f**ked up. A Trip to the Dentist is plain down right terrifying.
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« Reply #31 on: July 14, 2019, 12:25:04 PM »

Read a couple of Shirley Jackson novels (one of which was We Have Always Lived In The Castle, enjoyed the story if not quite the ending quite as much. Was hoping for more vengeance on the locals lol).
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« Reply #32 on: July 14, 2019, 10:00:02 PM »

SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by KURT VONNEGUT 

Billy Pilgrim is coming unstuck in time...

The little birdie say "Poo-tee-weet". 
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« Reply #33 on: July 15, 2019, 04:35:35 PM »

I enjoyed Ira Levin's ROSEMARY'S BABY and the STEPFORD WIVES very much.

I read ROSEMARY'S BABY several times when I was around 12 - 13 years old. Loved it. I read THE STEPFORD WIVES when I was in my 20s. Liked it more than the Katharine Ross movie, but not nearly as much as I liked ROSEMARY'S BABY.

Some other favorites:

* THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME - I've read this several times over the past 40+ years. Love it.

* DRACULA - What's not to love about this one?

* THE CAINE MUTINY - The movie with Bogey is excellent, but the book is infinitely better.

* 1984 - I don't think I've ever read a more depressing book. But it has tremendously vivid characters and settings.

* A CATCHER IN THE RYE - I only read it once, but it was a real page turner. I should read it again.

* THE BRONX ZOO by Sparky Lyle - Classic, you ask? Yes. It's a great book about baseball (specifically, the 1978 season). Also, one of the funniest books I've ever read. Laugh out loud funny. I read the whole book in 2 sittings. I could barely put it down.



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« Reply #34 on: July 15, 2019, 10:34:23 PM »

Guess who tonight's final JEOPARDY question was about? 

You guessed it!  SHIRLEY JACKSON !  They mentioned fame 'cause of a 1948 story (but didn't name "The Lottery"). 


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« Reply #35 on: July 16, 2019, 02:55:35 PM »

thanks for the tip on the baseball book, burgo! perfect present for brad, he's a baseball fiend.
AHD, ain't life weird sometimes?  Cheers
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« Reply #36 on: July 16, 2019, 10:19:01 PM »

thanks for the tip on the baseball book, burgo! perfect present for brad, he's a baseball fiend.
AHD, ain't life weird sometimes?  Cheers
Coincidence?  I am unconvinced.  I was one of the kids too young for THE DOORS but who got into that band big time around 1979... ?  Suddenly, it was a trend.

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« Reply #37 on: July 17, 2019, 01:52:54 PM »

i use the word resonance instead of coincidence, generally.
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« Reply #38 on: July 17, 2019, 05:28:54 PM »

i use the word resonance instead of coincidence, generally.

I dig it.  "Coincidence" was my word to describe, in a pedestrian way, my own experience.  I was a bit surprised by the obscurity of the framing (I'm great on years and they gave one) so I knew the "question" was Who is SHIRLEY JACKSON?  It resonated and was cool
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« Reply #39 on: July 17, 2019, 08:20:53 PM »

i use the word resonance instead of coincidence, generally.

I dig it.  "Coincidence" was my word to describe, in a pedestrian way, my own experience.  I was a bit surprised by the obscurity of the framing (I'm great on years and they gave one) so I knew the "question" was Who is SHIRLEY JACKSON?  It resonated and was cool.  

If someone who says they never read Shirley Jackson I just wanna slap them with a fish. And if I seem snobbish- well, I don't give a f**k.
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« Reply #40 on: July 17, 2019, 08:37:08 PM »

i use the word resonance instead of coincidence, generally.
I dig it.  "Coincidence" was my word to describe, in a pedestrian way, my own experience.  I was a bit surprised by the obscurity of the framing (I'm great on years and they gave one) so I knew the "question" was Who is SHIRLEY JACKSON?  It resonated and was cool.
If someone who says they never read Shirley Jackson I just wanna slap them with a fish. And if I seem snobbish- well, I don't give a f**k.

I think a lot of people have read SHIRLEY JACKSON but don't realize it.  The first time I read "The Lottery" it was a reading assignment in school; it had first been published in The New Yorker magazine in 1948.   Thumbup 
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« Reply #41 on: July 17, 2019, 09:10:00 PM »

And the LOTTERY ain't even close to her best story.
It's just something she wrote that folks could wrap there head around easy.
Most of her stories are not easy to pigon hole. They're f**ked up in ways that make you question your own sanity, sometimes.
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« Reply #42 on: July 17, 2019, 09:26:08 PM »

And the LOTTERY ain't even close to her best story.

It's just something she wrote that folks could wrap there head around easy.
Most of her stories are not easy to pigon hole. They're f**ked up in ways that make you question your own sanity, sometimes.

Prob'ly not her best.  But it is her best remembered short.  And I don't agree with your assessment.  Many people were outraged that her story had been published at all!  It's a landmark. 
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« Reply #43 on: July 17, 2019, 09:30:50 PM »

And the LOTTERY ain't even close to her best story.

It's just something she wrote that folks could wrap there head around easy.
Most of her stories are not easy to pigon hole. They're f**ked up in ways that make you question your own sanity, sometimes.

Prob'ly not her best.  But it is her best remembered short.  And I don't agree with your assessment.  Many people were outraged that her story had been published at all!  It's a landmark.  

It IS her best remembered. But far from her best. And it's only known by people who read
Shirley Jackson.
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« Reply #44 on: July 18, 2019, 02:33:34 AM »

i use the word resonance instead of coincidence, generally.

I dig it.  "Coincidence" was my word to describe, in a pedestrian way, my own experience.  I was a bit surprised by the obscurity of the framing (I'm great on years and they gave one) so I knew the "question" was Who is SHIRLEY JACKSON?  It resonated and was cool


 i thought you might " get" it. it's not explainable, really, it just.. works better to explain it, resonance.
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