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vetivert
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| don't know about his other books, but "the fermata", which was supposed to be a celebration of female sexuality, was just barely-disguised porn. i, too LOATHED it. i'm afraid i wouldn't read anything else by him, i'm too appalled. |
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PaulB
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| vetivert wrote: | | don't know about his other books, but "the fermata", which was supposed to be a celebration of female sexuality, was just barely-disguised porn. i, too LOATHED it. i'm afraid i wouldn't read anything else by him, i'm too appalled. |
Vox was a more egalitarian one when it comes to sex. After I read The Fermata I thought that I would never read a Nicholson Baker book again. Then I read The Everlasting Story of Nory, and I changed my mind. That books is about a little girl who wants to grow up and become a dentist, but she has nightmares about being chased by cows with teeth. It's a very lovely book. I'm glad I read it.
Besides, if you read Vox you will be introduced to one of the favorite characters for my friends and Me in college: Forky Pigtail!
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PaulB
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Oh, by the way, the book about riding an escalator is entitled The Mezzanine, in case anybody wanted to check that one out.
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Assassin
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Alan Stevenson (ME!  ). Allthogh I havent actaully published anything yet, Im still about 1/3 of the way throogh the first book of the series. At leest 2 of the main caricters (and 3 of the caricters) have AS, althogh I dont no if ill mention that yet, i havent even introdust these caricters yet, but the reel life peeple these caricters represent (yes, about a dozen caricters in it are also peeple i no in reel life) are AS.
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Assassin
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I dont no about any other aspie authors.
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BlackLiger
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| Assassin wrote: | | I dont no about any other aspie authors. |
SLAP WITH A LARGE FISH
me, duh!
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lol
I wasnt countin you becos as far as i no, your not actaully plannin on publishing.
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Bearsac-Debra
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I too think Nick Hornby's charaters are quite aspie. I wonder if he himself is.
Does anyone else thnik Mike Gayle might be aspie, he, to me is quite similar in style to N Hornby.
I like them both as authours.
Debra
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shivanataraja
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Agreed on Tolkien...
Howard Phillips Lovecraft also very strongly seems Aspie to me, from both what biographical information i have read about him and his obviously self-representing characters in most of his stories (particularly Charles Dexter Ward)...
very, very Aspie-ish Lovecraft quote (from his Wikipedia article): "In youth I scarcely did any letter-writing - thanking anybody for a present was so much of an ordeal that I would rather have written a two hundred fifty-line pastoral or a twenty-page treatise on the rings of Saturn."   |
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TheGreyBadger
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 5:24 pm Post subject: Is this forum also about characters? |
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Sarcastic_Name
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Umm...myself...I love the irony that I can't stand most poetry but sometimes write it.
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Belfast
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| Bearsac-Debra wrote: | | I too think Nick Hornby's charaters are quite aspie. I wonder if he himself is. |
Believe that IRL he has a young son dx'd autistic. Few years ago he wrote a book about/based on this, not sure if it's a novel or non-fiction. Someone else will likely know more & post after this.
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