Gay boyz reading

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I'm reading:

"La grosse femme d'a coté est enceinte" (slowly)--The fat lady next door is pregnant. Michel Tremblay. Taking a looong time due to my barely serviceable French.

'Atonement" Ian McEwan. Apparently fabulous but ploggin so far

A whack of journal articles on HIV/AIDS, injection drug use, homosexuality and social capital.

So what you boyz reading?

Comments

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The Clarke is quite interesting so far. Not to suggest that this is what was going on for you in particular, but certainly the media tone in general when he won the Giller seemed to imply a sense of "but Carol Shields is Approved CanLit [tm], how dare those presumptuous Giller judges give the prize to some (black) guy nobody's ever heard of?"

So, being the good boy that I am, I decided that I would read both books before casting any judgment of my own. Although, my budget being what it is, I still haven't read (or bought) the Shields book.

As for Martel, again, I'd want to know a whole lot more about the situation before drawing any conclusions. I'd need to know how much he actually lifted from the Brazilian novel -- was it just the basic idea of a child lost at sea, or did he lift the entire thing wholesale? That's one question that was never effectively answered for me in that controversy, and I don't necessarily think that borrowing elements of another writer's work for inspiration is a mortal sin, as long as the resulting work doesn't feel like a WalMart knockoff.