Burning Your Boats, Angela Carter

For reasons that escape even me at the moment, I am currently reading Boswell's Life of Johnson. I am on page three hundred and something, and there are thirteen hundred something pages in this edition, and Johnson is sixty-two now and he only lived to be seventy-five and I just... what is going to *take up* the next thousand pages, and why am *I personally* trying to find out? Especially since every other paragraph is an encomium as to why Johnson was The Greatest Thing Since Shakespeare, which not only probably answers my question about the next thousand pages but is an idea with which I personally violently disagree. The NRS (Ninja Replacement Score*) of this book is only one, but that one is Boswell, because he wouldn't have *noticed* if anyone else around happened to be a ninja, leading to no change in the book.

So I wanna talk about Angela Carter, because she is the person I read when I have just thrown another book up in the air and not particularly looked to see where it landed.

Burning Your Boats is the complete short stories, and contains a good deal of Carter's finest work.

The entire collection The Bloody Chamber, which is of course included, has been vastly influential and is cited a lot in discussions of the growth and maturity of the genre of adult fairy-tale and fairy-tale-retelling, but I find it a mixed bag on the whole, which means that I am not actually going to go off right now on how it has and has not been influential on anyone except me personally.

( Highlights and lowlights; your mileage may vary. )

Burning Your Boats, Angela Carter

For reasons that escape even me at the moment, I am currently reading Boswell's Life of Johnson. I am on page three hundred and something, and there are thirteen hundred something pages in this edition, and Johnson is sixty-two now and he only lived to be seventy-five and I just... what is going to *take up* the next thousand pages, and why am *I personally* trying to find out? Especially since every other paragraph is an encomium as to why Johnson was The Greatest Thing Since Shakespeare, which not only probably answers my question about the next thousand pages but is an idea with which I personally violently disagree. The NRS (Ninja Replacement Score*) of this book is only one, but that one is Boswell, because he wouldn't have *noticed* if anyone else around happened to be a ninja, leading to no change in the book.

So I wanna talk about Angela Carter, because she is the person I read when I have just thrown another book up in the air and not particularly looked to see where it landed.

Burning Your Boats is the complete short stories, and contains a good deal of Carter's finest work.

The entire collection The Bloody Chamber, which is of course included, has been vastly influential and is cited a lot in discussions of the growth and maturity of the genre of adult fairy-tale and fairy-tale-retelling, but I find it a mixed bag on the whole, which means that I am not actually going to go off right now on how it has and has not been influential on anyone except me personally.

( Highlights and lowlights; your mileage may vary. )