Comments on: Where Books Escape the Committee System https://booksquare.com/where-books-escape-the-committee-system/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=where-books-escape-the-committee-system Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:40:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Booksquare https://booksquare.com/where-books-escape-the-committee-system/#comment-85275 Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:40:31 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/06/21/1416/#comment-85275 A woman I greatly admire (in fact, she was my mentor) is anti-cilantro. I cannot hold dislike of a wonderful food against a person. I don’t eat tomatoes. I am flawed!

Just don’t tell me you don’t love Welcome to Temptation. Or (and this is truly a sin) Emma Jensen’s Coup de Grace (which was her crowning moment in hilarity,
Regency style) and we’re good. As noted, I am flawed. I don’t adore Laura Kinsale. And I can’t read Gravity’s Rainbow without wondering what it is about men and their reproductive organs…

]]> By: Candy https://booksquare.com/where-books-escape-the-committee-system/#comment-85274 Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:28:09 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/06/21/1416/#comment-85274 Oh, I love hot dogs. Love ’em. I’d give COD another change, except I re-read an excerpt a couple of years ago and found myself still going “eh.”

Please still like me. One of my bestest friends in the world loves cilantro–in fact, she’s eaten cilantro sandwiches, which is a culinary crime so heinous that I feel nauseous contemplating it–and I don’t hold it against her. Much.

]]> By: Booksquare https://booksquare.com/where-books-escape-the-committee-system/#comment-84090 Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:28:26 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/06/21/1416/#comment-84090 Heresy, you say! Confederacy of Dunces was genius. I insist you give it another chance. Perhaps you were in the wrong mood for the book. Or perhaps you don’t like hot dogs? I sometimes find I’m biased by such things (g).

Humor is rough, huh?

]]> By: Candy https://booksquare.com/where-books-escape-the-committee-system/#comment-83799 Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:31:34 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/06/21/1416/#comment-83799 I think cilantro tastes like soap, too. *cries*

And I checked out the first few pages of Home Land on Amazon–I have to say I don’t get it, the same way I didn’t get A Confederacy of Dunces. I didn’t think it was bad, per se–I just didn’t think it was particularly good, either. I definitely don’t think either book is particularly funny, though there’s plenty of absurdity and a sort of self-consciousness that’s alternately charming and annoying.

]]> By: readerofdepressingbooks https://booksquare.com/where-books-escape-the-committee-system/#comment-83547 Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:37:00 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/06/21/1416/#comment-83547 hi booksquare

can you e-mail me the article please?

i’ll give you something

something good…

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