tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post7665373197926185973..comments2024-03-21T07:37:30.475-04:00Comments on Light reading: Jokeless proseJenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-83418756761493106962007-06-15T05:57:00.000-04:002007-06-15T05:57:00.000-04:00I found White Noise hilarious and assumed it was d...I found <EM>White Noise</EM> hilarious and assumed it was deliberately so. Been getting less sure about that ever since.Jasper Milvainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08417909012663712109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-69472935080428902062007-06-15T03:00:00.000-04:002007-06-15T03:00:00.000-04:00After reading this I've been trying to decide if I...After reading this I've been trying to decide if I find Aciman <I>funny</I> - ironic, certainly, because there's no way I can read that peach episode without imagining the author's tongue in his cheek, for example (and I think it would be very difficult to pull it off with a third-person narrator).<BR/><BR/>And I think we are going to disagree entirely about death.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-83412919314427010022007-06-14T21:44:00.000-04:002007-06-14T21:44:00.000-04:00That is interesting, and I share your aversions to...That is interesting, and I share your aversions to DeLillo and McCarthy, but I did think the excerpt from Falling Man in the New Yorker was just superb, so I wonder if I will like it better...or if it was just a very well-chosen excerpt...Beccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002802440403969922noreply@blogger.com