Comments on: Keeping up with the Jossip http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2008/01/10/keeping-up-with-the-jossip/ The Fundamentals of Our Publishing are Wrong Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:37:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ruic http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2008/01/10/keeping-up-with-the-jossip/comment-page-1/#comment-2550 Ruic Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:44:43 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2008/01/10/keeping-up-with-the-jossip/#comment-2550 After Leela asked, sorry "axed", if there was a Mrs.Queequeg on <i>Futurama</i> what else is left for Hollywood to do to this piece of classic American literature? I'm personally hoping for really mild weather this year so the strike doesn't have to end anytime soon. After Leela asked, sorry “axed”, if there was a Mrs.Queequeg on Futurama what else is left for Hollywood to do to this piece of classic American literature?

I’m personally hoping for really mild weather this year so the strike doesn’t have to end anytime soon.

]]> By: Cliff Burns http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2008/01/10/keeping-up-with-the-jossip/comment-page-1/#comment-2546 Cliff Burns Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:10:10 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2008/01/10/keeping-up-with-the-jossip/#comment-2546 This is good, good stuff. I admire the curmudgeonly tone, the witty byplay and the obvious erudition. It's so refreshing to find a site that utilizes satire so effectively. This is a smart, invaluable site and if I can figure out how to do it, you're on my blog roll, mate. And that's an offer I make to very, very few people, believe me. Like Arnie, I'll be back... This is good, good stuff. I admire the curmudgeonly tone, the witty byplay and the obvious erudition. It’s so refreshing to find a site that utilizes satire so effectively. This is a smart, invaluable site and if I can figure out how to do it, you’re on my blog roll, mate. And that’s an offer I make to very, very few people, believe me. Like Arnie, I’ll be back…

]]> By: Paul Riddell http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2008/01/10/keeping-up-with-the-jossip/comment-page-1/#comment-2504 Paul Riddell Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:01:35 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2008/01/10/keeping-up-with-the-jossip/#comment-2504 Sean, you confirm a popular misconception about Spielberg. If he's not trying for an Oscar, he'd never touch <i>Moby Dick</i> unless Melville wrote Ishmael as being under 15 and Queequeg as his "special big friend". Unless he's gunning for a Best Director Oscar, every film he does has to have that proper NAMBLA ambiance that he's been pounding into the ground since <i>Close Encounters</i>. Sean, you confirm a popular misconception about Spielberg. If he’s not trying for an Oscar, he’d never touch Moby Dick unless Melville wrote Ishmael as being under 15 and Queequeg as his “special big friend”. Unless he’s gunning for a Best Director Oscar, every film he does has to have that proper NAMBLA ambiance that he’s been pounding into the ground since Close Encounters.

]]> By: Sean Lindsay http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2008/01/10/keeping-up-with-the-jossip/comment-page-1/#comment-2484 Sean Lindsay Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:48:21 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2008/01/10/keeping-up-with-the-jossip/#comment-2484 That's exactly where Melville went wrong with <i>Moby Dick</i>. He wrote it more than a century before CGI was sophisticated enough to render the whale on the big screen. And he should have sent a galley to Spielberg. That’s exactly where Melville went wrong with Moby Dick. He wrote it more than a century before CGI was sophisticated enough to render the whale on the big screen. And he should have sent a galley to Spielberg.

]]> By: Jefferson Whitney http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2008/01/10/keeping-up-with-the-jossip/comment-page-1/#comment-2478 Jefferson Whitney Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:30:33 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2008/01/10/keeping-up-with-the-jossip/#comment-2478 "Jefferson, that doesn’t exactly sound like consensus. English teachers say that because that’s what they were taught at school." Your right, it's only a consensus among the few Americans that read literature as what to what literature is. I wish I wasn't kidding about that. People in this country won't read anything that they consider to be 'old stuff.' If a book isn't designed to be like a movie then it won't be read. “Jefferson, that doesn’t exactly sound like consensus. English teachers say that because that’s what they were taught at school.”

Your right, it’s only a consensus among the few Americans that read literature as what to what literature is. I wish I wasn’t kidding about that. People in this country won’t read anything that they consider to be ‘old stuff.’ If a book isn’t designed to be like a movie then it won’t be read.

]]> By: Sean Lindsay http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2008/01/10/keeping-up-with-the-jossip/comment-page-1/#comment-2468 Sean Lindsay Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:33:12 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2008/01/10/keeping-up-with-the-jossip/#comment-2468 Andy, I don't think that a novel you can only read for a few days in the middle of one month should qualify as the Great English Novel. Certainly, any novel that can be described as 'isn't as good as' doesn't qualify, by definition. If brevity were the primary criteria, then <a href="http://moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A2583&page_number=1&template_id=1&sort_order=1">this would be the Great American Novel</a>. Jefferson, that doesn't exactly sound like consensus. English teachers say that because that's what <i>they</i> were taught at school. Andy, I don’t think that a novel you can only read for a few days in the middle of one month should qualify as the Great English Novel. Certainly, any novel that can be described as ‘isn’t as good as’ doesn’t qualify, by definition. If brevity were the primary criteria, then this would be the Great American Novel.

Jefferson, that doesn’t exactly sound like consensus. English teachers say that because that’s what they were taught at school.

]]> By: Jefferson Whitney http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2008/01/10/keeping-up-with-the-jossip/comment-page-1/#comment-2467 Jefferson Whitney Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:14:12 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2008/01/10/keeping-up-with-the-jossip/#comment-2467 This is a good article, though I'm a bit puzzled about the statement that there is no consensus on the 'Great American Novel.' Every English teacher I had said it was either Moby Dick or Huckleberry Finn. This is a good article, though I’m a bit puzzled about the statement that there is no consensus on the ‘Great American Novel.’ Every English teacher I had said it was either Moby Dick or Huckleberry Finn.

]]> By: Andy Lawston http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2008/01/10/keeping-up-with-the-jossip/comment-page-1/#comment-2446 Andy Lawston Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:48:09 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2008/01/10/keeping-up-with-the-jossip/#comment-2446 Where the great English novel is concerned, even a rabid Dickens bitch like myself must point out that the award is generally tied between Middlemarch and Mill on the Floss (which isn’t as good but, crucially, is quite a bit shorter). Where the great English novel is concerned, even a rabid Dickens bitch like myself must point out that the award is generally tied between Middlemarch and Mill on the Floss (which isn’t as good but, crucially, is quite a bit shorter).

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