The Weather.

[IdleRich]

Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.

 

[linebaugh]

where would Vonnegut wind up on a dissensus list of worst authors?

 

[IdleRich]

Three x babies is definitely too much

 

[IdleRich]

Did you ever read Brautigan?

 

[woops]

where would Vonnegut wind up on a dissensus list of worst authors?

I quite liked him as a teenager so I'd rank him with Paul Auster and Haruki Murakami

 

[version]

I liked Cat's Cradle when I read it, but that was a long time ago and whenever I see something of his it always comes off as twee and irritating.

 

[IdleRich]

Cats Cradle is pretty good - and some of his others no doubt - but yeah that quote above seems almost designed to annoy.

 

[IdleRich]

I like Paul Auster more though... probably Murakami too.

 

[IdleRich]

But no-one reads Brautigan any more I guess?

 

[mixed_biscuits]

where would Vonnegut wind up on a dissensus list of worst authors?

Bottom, ie. best author (so it goes)

 

[william_kent]

But no-one reads Brautigan any more I guess?

I read some Brautigan when I was in my teens, but I don't have any inclination to read him now - even then he seemed slightly anachronistic and, dare I say it, twee. I liked the idea of the one about the library where people deposited the books they had created, but now we have the internet where anyone can post any old crap which makes that premise redundant ( or I may be mistaken and he was a visionary? )

I was just thinking that everyone can name some Beat literature, and some of it still stands up ( well, Burroughs ), but I'm struggling to think of what "great works of literature" the hippie generation produced...and I associate Brautigan with the hippies for some reason...

I think maybe Brautigan is too much of his time for people to bother with nowadays?

 

[Benny B]

Oh, great. Can't wait for the 42 Celsius Saharan dust storm on it's way to me this weekend

Spain braces for heat wave of ‘extraordinary intensity’

Country warned of risk of orange dust storms as forecasters predict France will see hottest May on record

www.theguardian.com

 

[wild greens]

I'm there next week for a wedding, hoping it settles a bit or there are going to be a lot of burned scalps

Oh, great. Can't wait for the 42 Celsius Saharan dust storm on it's way to me this weekend

Spain braces for heat wave of ‘extraordinary intensity’

Country warned of risk of orange dust storms as forecasters predict France will see hottest May on record

www.theguardian.com

 

[shakahislop]

@Leo this spring has been so odd hasn't it. so much wind, as you correctly pointed out the other day