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:-) (Reply to this comment)
by jankp
You're a fantastic writer with depth. Welcome to my WOT!
Jan
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Aug 05 '01
1:44 pm PDT
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Welcome back (Reply to this comment)
by eplovejoy
Dear Jarrett,
Your superior analysis deserves to be read not as part of any genre, but as a great and loving critique.
It is exceptionally incisive reviews like yours that highlight the foolishness of the Epinions advisor selection system. If it worked, the system would recognize coruscant works like yours and would highlight them even if you don't write many.
If you ever get it into your head to be as prolific as is required to be an advisor, we all would benefit.
Best wishes,
Peter
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Jul 13 '01
1:35 pm PDT
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Re: Re:+Adding+it+to+my+list+now... (Reply to this comment)
by kboo
I have to admit, I'm fascinated with the gritty, depressing New York that spawned Bernard Goetz (among others). Growing up in Boston, I was a bit scared of, but challenged by and ultimately drawn to such a dark and dangerous city. (and yes, it WAS dangerous back then- the gleaming silver trains were covered in multicolored spray paint graffiti, the subway trains stank of urine, and the stations were dark, ominous places where one didn't dare linger...)
These days, the city is clean and so damned PERKY that I find it hard to be depressed, so I look forward to your next piece.
kboo
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Jul 09 '01
6:45 pm PDT
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Re: Adding+it+to+my+list+now... (Reply to this comment)
by Urbanist
Hey Kboo,
Much of the action takes place at 205 E 5th Street, a fictional address, but only a few houses from where the author lived during the early AIDS years. I made a literary pilgrimage there just to get a feel of the neighborhood, but you can't go back again, even if you'd want to.
Remember, the novel is set in Lindsay/Koch-era New York, a considerably uglier, scarier, and angrier place than the smileyfaced city of the Giuliani era. Tompkins Square Park, a major site in the novel that the characters refer to as Dog Sh*t Park, is now largely bereft of its eponym. They even have fines for honking now.
Don't worry, my piece on "How to be Depressed in Giuliani's New York City" is coming along soon.
Cheers
jarrett (urb)
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Jul 09 '01
1:33 pm PDT
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Adding it to my list now... (Reply to this comment)
by kboo
What did you think of the author's descriptions of New York? Did they resonate with your experience?
As always, a beautifully written review that only makes me want to read more, more and yet more.
kboo
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Jul 09 '01
9:00 am PDT
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Thanks for putting this in perspective (Reply to this comment)
by proeditor
I wouldn't have bothered with it had I read the dust jacket. Now I think I will put this on the ever-growing list.
Beautiful review, urb. "He leaves with the confidence that he can be as rude as New York requires, without becoming mean in his heart": What a concept!
Karen
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Jul 08 '01
6:23 am PDT
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thanks again..... (Reply to this comment)
by deaser26
i added you to my wot after reading your review of Fell In Love With The Moon....and this review was no less magnificent...i have friends who have been going to hear the readings and see the dangerous one himself....what a time to be around Portland....
thanks brother....
deaser26 (mike d)
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Jul 05 '01
11:02 pm PDT
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As incisive and evocative a book review as I've read.... (Reply to this comment)
by NFP
...on this site, Urb.
The publishers would do well to put some of it in blurb form on the next edition's dust jacket...though from the sound of it they'd probably lift a section out of context from the part in which you recount their inability to look past the "Scourge of AIDS" theme.
Bravo. Well turned.
nick
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Jul 05 '01
10:59 pm PDT
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I am so very happy... (Reply to this comment)
by wovengold
to learn of this. I lived in "The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon," and couldn't get it out of my head for weeks. Can't wait to find this one.
Are you sure my horse knows where I'm goin'? ;9
Seems a little misguided to me...
Thanks! Kristin
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Jul 05 '01
7:23 pm PDT
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sounds intense (Reply to this comment)
by sumo_rhino
This sounds like one of those read that will drain you entirely. And it seems it did just that to the author, who could only pour rationed portions of himself into the work during the long and (presumably) exhausting writing of it.
Lead the way, O' Epinionator Prime. Your reviews rock.
- sumo_rhino
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Jul 05 '01
6:23 am PDT
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